The time machine as first novel / J.R. Hammond -- Taking it as a story / Robert Crossley -- Was the time machine necessary? / Paul Alkon -- The rebirth of a scientific intelligence / Frank Scafella -- Time before and after The time machine / W.M.S. Russell -- Wells and neoteny / Kirby Farrell -- The time machine and Victorian mythology / Sylvia Hardy -- The time machine and Wells's social trajectory / John Huntington -- From Rome to Richmond / Patrick Parrinder -- Change in the city / Carlo Pagetti -- Time at the end of its tether / Larry W. Caldwell -- The legacy of H.G. Wells's The time machine / Joshua Stein -- Wells and the sequency-simultaneity paradox / Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser -- A revision and a gloss / David Leone Higdon -- Doomed formicary versus the technological sublime / Brain W. Aldiss -- Afterword: in the company of the immortals / Patrick Parrinder.