Editing Morlock (section)

==In sequels and prequels==
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===''When the Sleeper Wakes''===
H. G. Wells also wrote a book called ''[[The Sleeper Awakes|When the Sleeper Wakes]]'' (1899).{{full|date=April 2025}} The book centers on a man who somehow falls asleep for several centuries, and wakes in the mid-21st century to find that his investments have done so well that he owns the world. An organization called the Labour Company has rounded up most of the world's lower class, forcing them to work underground in terrible conditions for the sole benefit of the rich upper class. It would seem{{clarify|to who?|date=September 2024}} that these people will later degenerate to become the Morlocks.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} When the "Sleeper" encounters these (apparently) proto-Morlocks, he notes that they seem to be turning paler, as well as developing their own dialect of English.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

===''The Time Ships''===
''[[The Time Ships]]'' (1995), a novel by [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]],{{full|date=April 2025}} is a canonical sequel to Wells' ''[[The Time Machine]]'', one officially authorized by the Wells estate to mark the centenary of the original's publication.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} In its wide-ranging narrative, the Time Traveller attempts to return to the world of tomorrow but instead finds that his actions have changed the future: one in which the Eloi have never manifested.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} Instead, the Earth is a nearly barren waste that has been abandoned in favour of a 220 million kilometres wide self-sustaining [[Dyson Sphere|sphere]] around the [[Sun]] drawing its energy directly from sunlight (since it entirely encompasses the star and receives its whole energy output), where the Morlocks (and several other offshoots of humanity) now live.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

The Morlocks' in this 1995 novel are utterly peaceful, moralistic, and highly intelligent.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} The character Nebogipfel learns English in a matter of days and is soon able to speak it fluently, although with some limitations due to the Morlocks' vocal apparatus, which is quite different from humans.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} The only resemblance these new Morlocks have to the monstrous cannibals of the first future is that of appearance and dwelling "underground".{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} The sphere they inhabit is divided into two concentric shells, with the Morlocks living exclusively inside the nearly featureless exterior.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} Above them, the inner shell where the sun shines openly is an Earth-like utopia; in its many forms and at many technological levels (from somehow familiar nowadays like industrial worlds, to worlds having anti-gravitational devices), they continue on here in much the same way as that of the Time Traveller's era, war being the most obvious holdover.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

The new Morlocks' civilization includes a variety of nation-groups based on thought and ideology, in which individuals move between without conflict.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} All needs are met by the sphere itself, including reproduction where the newly born are "extruded" directly from the floor.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} These peaceful intelligent Morlocks seem also to have extraordinary resistance to disease and perhaps to radiations too, even when not in their homeworld, as stated by Nebogipfel when in the [[Paleocene]].{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} (The Time Traveller quickly became ill from unknown germs, while Nebogipfel, though injured and disabled, suffered no apparent ill effects.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}})

Nebogipfel is the only Morlock whose name is revealed, and remains with the Time Traveller throughout the book.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} Nebogipfel's name derives from the main character of [[H. G. Wells]]' first attempt at a [[time travel]] story, then called "Chronic Argonauts", and a character there named "Dr. Moses Nebogipfel". {{says who|date=April 2025}}{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} (The name Moses was also used in ''[[The Time Ships]]'', though it is given to the younger version of himself that the Time Traveller meets on his journey.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}})

===''Morlock Night''===
In [[K. W. Jeter]]'s novel ''[[Morlock Night]]'',{{full|date=April 2025}} the Morlocks have stolen the [[time travel|Time Machine]] and used it to invade [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[London]]. These Morlocks are always described as wearing blueish spectacles, which are presumably to protect the Morlocks' sensitive, dark-adapted eyes. The Morlocks are separated into two types, or [[caste]]s, in the novel. One is the short, weak, stupid Grunt Morlocks, who are supposedly the kind that the Time Traveller encountered, and the other is the Officer Morlocks, who are taller, more intelligent, speak English, and have a high rank within the Morlock invasion force. An example of the latter type is Colonel Nalga, an antagonist later in the book.

Hence, on the whole, these Morlocks are much more formidable than those in Wells' ''[[The Time Machine]]''—a clever, technological race with enough power to take over the entire world. They also receive support from treacherous 19th century [[humans]], especially a dark [[Wizard (fantasy)|wizard]] named Merdenne. It is also revealed that the Morlocks living in their native time (the 8,028th century) have stopped allowing the [[Eloi]] to roam free and now keep them in pens.