Editing The Time Machine (section)

==Deleted text==
A section from the thirteenth chapter of the serial published in ''New Review'' (May 1895, partway down p.&nbsp;577 to p.&nbsp;580, line 29)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RswrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA472-IA3 |title=New Review, May 1895, p. 577 |year=1895 |access-date=2021-03-31 |archive-date=20 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320155350/https://books.google.com/books?id=RswrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA472-IA3 |url-status=live }}</ref> does not appear in either of the 1895 editions of the book.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435056556525&view=1up&seq=206 |chapter=The Further Vision |title=The Time Machine, Henry Holt [publisher], May 1895, p. 192 |author=H. G. Wells |year=1895 |publisher=H. Holt |access-date=2021-03-31 |archive-date=20 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320155353/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435056556525&view=1up&seq=206 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Time_Machine_(H._G._Wells,_William_Heinemann,_1895).djvu/146 |chapter=The Further Vision |title=The Time Machine, William Heinemann [publisher], May 1895, p. 134 |author=H. G. Wells |access-date=2021-03-31 |archive-date=28 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128195703/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Time_Machine_(H._G._Wells,_William_Heinemann,_1895).djvu/146 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ittdb.com/work-1053 |title=The Internet Time Travel Database: The Time Machine |access-date=2021-03-31 |archive-date=20 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320155357/https://www.ittdb.com/work-1053 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was drafted at the suggestion of Wells's editor, [[William Ernest Henley]], who wanted Wells to "oblige your editor" by lengthening the text with, among other things, an illustration of "the ultimate degeneracy" of humanity. "There was a slight struggle," Wells later recalled, "between the writer and W. E. Henley who wanted, he said, to put a little 'writing' into the tale. But the writer was in reaction from that sort of thing, the Henley interpolations were cut out again, and he had his own way with his text."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hammond |first1=John R. |title=H. G. Wells's The Time Machine: A Reference Guide |date=2004 |publisher=Praeger |location=Westport, Conn. |isbn=978-0313330070 |page=50}}</ref> This portion of the story was published elsewhere as "[[s:The Grey Man|The Final Men]]" (1940)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ittdb.com/work-1297 |title=The Internet Time Travel Database: The Final Men |access-date=2021-03-31 |archive-date=20 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320155357/https://www.ittdb.com/work-1297 |url-status=live }}</ref> and "[[s:The Grey Man|The Grey Man]]".<ref>{{cite web |author=Symon, Evan V. |url=http://listverse.com/2013/01/14/deleted-book-chapters/ |title=10 Deleted Chapters that Transformed Famous Books |publisher=Listverse |access-date=2015-10-31 |date=14 January 2013 |archive-date=5 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905233130/http://listverse.com/2013/01/14/deleted-book-chapters/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The deleted text was also published by [[Forrest J Ackerman]] in an issue of the American edition of ''[[Perry Rhodan]]''.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}

The deleted text recounts an incident immediately after the Traveller's escape from the Morlocks. He finds himself in the distant future in a frost-covered [[moorland]] with simple grasses and black bushes, populated with furry, hopping herbivores resembling [[kangaroo]]s. He stuns or kills one with a rock, and upon closer examination realises they are probably the descendants of humans / Eloi / Morlocks. A gigantic, centipede-like [[arthropod]] approaches and the Traveller flees into the next day, finding that the creature has apparently eaten the tiny humanoid. The [[Dover Press]]<ref>{{Cite book |title=Science-Fiction, the Early Years: A Full Description of More Than 3,000 Science-Fiction Stories from Earliest Times to the Appearance of the Genre Magazines in 1930, with author, title, and motif indexes |author1=Everett Franklin Bleiler |author2=Richard Bleiler |publisher=Kent State University Press |date=1990 |isbn=9780873384162 |page=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionea0000blei/page/796 796] |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionea0000blei/page/796 }}</ref> and [[Easton Press]] editions of the novella restore this deleted segment.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}