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* NoBiologicalSex: Nebogipfel, like all Morlocks from the Sphere, is sexless, although he uses male pronouns.
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* ProudScholarRace: Morlocks in the new timeline are an entire species collectively dedicated to the advancement of knowledge. [[spoiler:The [[MechanicalLifeform Universal Constructors]] and the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Watchers]] are even more extreme examples.]]
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* ShorterMeansSmarter: Nebogipfel is arguably the smartest humanoid character in the book, but he stands less than five feet tall (about 1.50 m).
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* {{Transhuman}}: The Morlocks of the year 657,208 have genetically engineered themselves to get rid of several human traits they consider no longer useful, both physical (e.g. sexual reproduction) and mental (e.g. territoriality).
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Before he can arrive at 802,701 AD a mysterious creature which the the Time Traveller refers to as the Watcher appears. This causes him to panic and stop the time machine. He falls out and finds himself in 657,208 AD. He eventually pieces together what happened. He realizes that a publishing of an account of his adventure by one of his friends caused humanity to take a different path, and advance on to become a Type II Kardashev civilization, causing the original future he visited to never occur. This resulted in the creation of a new kind of Morlock. Instead of becoming the beastly herders of the Eloi, they're now a race of scholars, living on the surface of a Dyson Sphere.
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Before he can arrive at 802,701 AD a mysterious creature which the the Time Traveller refers to as the Watcher appears. This causes him to panic and stop the time machine. He falls machine, falling out and finds finding himself in 657,208 AD. He eventually pieces Piecing together what happened. He happened, he realizes that a publishing of an account of his adventure by one of his friends caused humanity to take a different path, path and advance on to become a Type II Kardashev civilization, causing the original future he visited to never occur. This resulted in the creation of a new kind of Morlock. Instead of becoming the beastly herders of the Eloi, they're now a race of scholars, living on the surface of a Dyson Sphere.
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* BadFuture: [[spoiler:The 1938 alternate timeline, relative to the Time Traveller's home of Richmond, 1891 is certainly this. World War I has been going on for 24 years and shows no sign of stopping, the common person now lives in a huge dome or an underground bunker, and time travel technology has allowed the war to be fought in the past. It's also implied that because of these circumstances, new generations of Englishmen born in said domes and bunkers are starting to bear a passing resemblance to Morlocks.]]
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* BadFuture: [[spoiler:The The 1938 alternate timeline, relative to the Time Traveller's home of Richmond, 1891 is certainly this. [[spoiler: World War I has been going on for 24 years and shows no sign of stopping, the common person now lives in a huge dome or an underground bunker, and time travel technology has allowed the war to be fought in the past. It's also implied that because of these circumstances, new generations of Englishmen born in said domes and bunkers are starting to bear a passing resemblance to Morlocks.]]
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* ShoutOut: ''The Time Ships'' contains numerous references to other works of H.G. Wells such as "The Plattner Story", "The Land Ironclads", "The Chronic Argonauts", ''The World Set Free'' and so on. Nebogipfel takes his name from "The Chronic Argonauts"; the name of the carolinum bomb is taken from ''The World Set Free'', among others.
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* ShoutOut: ''The Time Ships'' contains numerous references to other works of H.G. Wells such as "The Plattner Story", "The Land Ironclads", "The Chronic Argonauts", ''The World Set Free'' and so on. Nebogipfel takes his name from "The Chronic Argonauts"; the name of the carolinum bomb is taken from ''The World Set Free'', among others. The Watchers appearance is very similar to the Martians of ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.
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* MindScrew: Just try and keep track of all the alternate timelines. [[TheReveal The Reveal ]] doesn't help at all.
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* MisterExposition: Nebogipfel fills the protagonist in on post-19th century science when needed.
* MisterExposition: Nebogipfel fills the protagonist in on post-19th century science when needed.
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* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: The Traveler thinks this when he realizes that he changes the future each time he travels. It is the reason why he decided to stop his past self from inventing TimeTravel in the first place.
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* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: The Traveler thinks this when he realizes that he changes the future each time he travels. It is In fact, it's the reason why he decided decides to stop his past self from inventing TimeTravel in the first place.
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* SerialEscalation: The Molocks of the year 657,208 live in a DysonSphere and are implied to be more technologically advanced than any civilization that lived in the "original" timeline. [[spoiler: The far more advanced Universal Constructors have built a Dyson Sphere around almost every star in the galaxy, and it's implied that the Watchers can casually move across timelines -- something that the Constructors managed ''once'', as a whole civilization, and consider their crowning achievement.]]
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* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: The Traveler thinks this when he realizes that he changes the future each time he travels. It is the reason why he decided to stop his past self from inventing TimeTravel in the first place.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Universal Constructors can take any form that is necessary for the environment they are in and create tools from their cilia.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Universal Constructors can take any form that is necessary for the environment they are in and create tools from their cilia.cilia.
* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: The protagonist only gradually finds out how TimeTravel works. At first, the Traveller is suprised to find out the the future can be changed at all. He is then terrified, believing that he erased the original timeline and countless lives. Nebogipfel then explains to him that timelines branch, and none is ever erased. [[spoiler:At the end of the novel, the Watchers are [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens advanced enough]] that they manage to enforce a StableTimeLoop even within the context of branching timelines.]]
* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: The protagonist only gradually finds out how TimeTravel works. At first, the Traveller is suprised to find out the the future can be changed at all. He is then terrified, believing that he erased the original timeline and countless lives. Nebogipfel then explains to him that timelines branch, and none is ever erased. [[spoiler:At the end of the novel, the Watchers are [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens advanced enough]] that they manage to enforce a StableTimeLoop even within the context of branching timelines.]]
