Time machine

Japanese: タイム・マシン(英語表記)time machine
Time machine
It is also translated as "time machine." It is a fantastical device for visiting the past or future, and first appeared in H.G. Wells' work The Time Machine (1895). However, Wells's work was primarily about critique of civilization, and in that sense, like Mark Twain's A Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), which deals with non-mechanical time travel, he did not conduct a purely logical analysis of the time machine. Later, some science fiction writers focused on the "time paradox," which is the effect that altering the past has on the future, and the time machine grew into a major theme that plays a part in science fiction literature.

The Time Machine

This was the debut novel by British author H.G. Wells. Published in 1895, it became a pioneer of modern science fiction. Based on the development of non-Euclidean geometry and new theories of space-time, this novella was inspired by the theory that time is also a movable space (fourth dimension), and tells the story of a man who arrives in the future in the year 802701 on a scooter-shaped time machine. In this world, humanity has differentiated into the weak, childlike Eloi and the barbaric subterranean Morlocks, and is on the road to degeneration and extinction. This work, which predicted the dark future of the Earth, coincided with the apocalyptic feeling of the time, and its sharp social satire, such as the fate of urban workers being reflected in the Morlocks operating machines underground, won acclaim.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
〈航時機〉とも訳される。過去や未来を訪れるための空想的な装置で,H.G.ウェルズ《タイム・マシン》(1895)にはじめて登場する。しかしウェルズ作品の主眼は文明批評にあり,その点では機械によらぬ時間遡行を扱ったマーク・トウェーン《アーサー王宮廷のヤンキー》(1889)と同様に,タイム・マシンの純論理的分析を行ったものではなかった。その後,一部の科学小説作家は,過去の改変による未来への影響という〈タイム・パラドックス〉に着目し,ここにタイム・マシンはSF文芸の一翼をになう大きなテーマに成長した。

タイム・マシン【The Time Machine】

イギリスの小説家H.G.ウェルズの処女小説。1895年に出版され,現代SFの先駆となった。非ユークリッド幾何学や新たな時空論の発展を踏まえ,時間もまた移動可能な空間(第四次元)であるとする説に着想を得た中編で,スクーター型の航時機に乗り802701年の未来に到着した男を描く。そこでは人類が子どものように弱々しいエロイと野蛮な地底人モーロックとに分化し,退化滅亡への道をすすんでいた。地球の暗い未来を予言したこの作品は,おりからの世紀末的終末感とも一致し,地底で機械を操作するモーロックに都市労働者の末路が映されるなど社会風刺も鋭く,評判を呼んだ。

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