Editing Morlock (section)

===''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}})