Editing Morlock (section)

==In other printed works==
===In other fiction===
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Some authors have adopted the Morlocks and adapted them to their works, often completely unassociated with ''The Time Machine'', or were named in-universe in homage to H.G. Wells' works. The Morlocks appeared in a story by [[Alan Moore]] titled ''[[Allan and the Sundered Veil]]'',{{when|date=April 2025}} which appeared as part of the [[comic book]] collection ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I]]''. In the story, the Time Traveller takes some of the regular League characters into his future world, where he has made a base out of the Morlock sphinx. The party is soon attacked by Morlocks, who are fierce, [[simian]] creatures in this story.  They are physically much more powerful than Wells' creatures, although they're similar to the Hunter Morlocks from the [[The Time Machine (2002 film)|2002 film]].

[[Larry Niven]] included a version of the Morlocks in his ''[[Known Space]]'' books.{{when|date=April 2025}} They appear as a [[wikt:subhuman|subhuman]] alien race living in the caves in one region of [[Known Space|Wunderland]], which is one of [[human]]ity's colonies in the [[Alpha Centauri]] system. Many of these stories are by [[Hal Colebatch (author)|Hal Colebatch]] in the shared spin-off series, "[[Man-Kzin Wars|The Man Kzin Wars]]", especially in vols. X, XI and XII. They are also mentioned in stories in the same series by M. J. Harringtom. In [[Joanna Russ]]' short story "The Second Inquisition",{{when|date=April 2025}} ''The Time Machine'' is referenced a number of times, and the unnamed character referred to as "our guest" (who is evidently a visitor from the future) claims to be a Morlock, although she does not physically resemble Wells' Morlocks.

In the fictional universe of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'',{{when|date=April 2025}} Morlocks are the elite warriors of the Iron Hands chapter of space marines and feature in several [[The Horus Heresy (novels)|Horus Heresy novels]] where they act as bodyguards for their primarch Ferrus Manus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Morlocks - Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum |url=https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Morlock |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=wh40k.lexicanum.com}}</ref> The inhabitants of the Moscow metro are sometimes sarcastically referred to as Morlocks in Dmitry Glukhovsky's ''[[Metro 2033 (novel)|Metro 2033]]''.{{when|date=April 2025}}
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===In non-fiction===
In [[Neal Stephenson]]'s essay on modern culture [[wikt:vis-à-vis|vis-à-vis]] [[operating system]] development, ''[[In the Beginning... was the Command Line]]'', he demonstrates similarities between the future in ''[[The Time Machine]]'' and contemporary American culture.<ref name="Stephenson">{{cite web|url = http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html|title = In the Beginning was the Command Line|first = Neal|last = Stephenson|year = 1999|access-date = 2008-08-27|archive-date = 2018-02-18|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180218045352/http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html|url-status = dead}}</ref> He claims that most Americans have been exposed to a "corporate monoculture" which renders them "unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands." Anyone who remains outside of this "culture" is left with powerful tools to deal with the world, and it is they, rather than the neutered [[Eloi]], that run things.

[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] mentioned Morlocks three times in his 1939 essay ''[[On Fairy-Stories]]'', which discusses the genre now called [[fantasy]]. The first reference occurs where Tolkien attempts to define the genre, and he suggests that the Morlocks (and Eloi) place ''The Time Machine'' more in the genre than do the Lilliputians in ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''. He reasoned that the Lilliputians are merely diminutive humans, whereas the Morlocks and Eloi are significantly different from us, and "live far away in an abyss of time so deep as to work an enchantment". Another reference to the creatures of ''The Time Machine'' occurs in the essay's section "Recovery, Escape, Consolation". Here it's argued that fantasy offers a legitimate means of escape from the mundane world and the "Morlockian horror of factories". Elsewhere in his essay, Tolkien warns against separating fantasy readers into superficial categories, using the Eloi and Morlocks as a dramatic illustration of the repercussions of sundering the human race.<ref>Tolkien, J.R.R., ''[[Tree and Leaf]]'', 2nd edition, Unwin Paperbacks, pp. 19, 64 & 48; {{ISBN|0 04 820015 8}}</ref>

===Miscellaneous===
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* ''Die Reise mit der Zeitmaschine'' (1946, "The Journey with the Time Machine"), by [[Egon Friedell]] – translated by [[Eddy C. Bertin]] into English and republished as ''The Return of the Time Machine''. At the time of its publication, this was then the only sequel to ''The Time Machine''. It describes the Time Traveller's further visits to the future, and the Time Machine's entanglement with the past.<ref>{{cite web|first=John Q |last=McDonald |date=1998-10-03 |title=Review of ''The Return of The Time Machine'' by Egon Friedell |url=http://goto.glocalnet.net/timemachine/vremeplov/books/sequels/returnoftm.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926222544/http://goto.glocalnet.net/timemachine/vremeplov/books/sequels/returnoftm.htm |archive-date=September 26, 2007 }}</ref>
* ''The Man Who Loved Morlocks'' (1981), by [[David Lake (writer)|David Lake]]. This novel recounts the Time Traveller's second journey. This time, he meets the Morlocks again, but is equipped with a camera and a Colt revolver.<ref>{{cite web|first=John Q |last=McDonald |url=http://goto.glocalnet.net/timemachine/vremeplov/books/sequels/lovemorlocks.htm |title=Review of ''The Man Who Loved Morlocks'' by David Lake |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926222337/http://goto.glocalnet.net/timemachine/vremeplov/books/sequels/lovemorlocks.htm |archive-date=September 26, 2007 }}</ref> This book is notable for portraying the Morlocks in a sympathetic, and completely different light.  The Time Traveller discovers, on his second trip, that the Eloi and Morlocks of the future world are all dying due to a disease introduced by him on his first trip, to which they have no immunity. Traveling further into the future, he discovers a great and noble civilization, the beautiful inhabitants of which it is eventually learned are the descendants of the few surviving Morlocks. Also, an ancient journal is discovered, which tells the story of the Time Traveller's first trip from the Morlocks' point of view, revealing that the Morlocks, rather than being hostile predators/farmers of the Eloi, were in fact the custodians of a kind of natural reserve dedicated to protecting and preserving them. The apparently hostile acts of the Morlocks are explained by showing the story from a different viewpoint.
* ''Time Machine Troopers'' (2011), by [[Hal Colebatch (author)|Hal Colebatch]], published by [[Acashic]]. In this story, the time traveller returns to the future about 18 years beyond the time in which he first visited it, hoping to regenerate the Eloi, and taking with him [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Sir Robert Baden-Powell]], who will later found the Boy Scout movement in England. They set out to teach the Eloi self-reliance and self-defence, but are captured by Morlocks. It turns out that the Eloi and Morlocks are both more complex than the time traveller had thought, also that Weena is still alive and leading an Eloi resistance movement. The story sets out to be an answer to Wells's pessimism, as the Time Traveller and Baden-Powell seek to teach the future world [[scouting]] and [[cricket]]. [[Winston Churchill|Sir Winston Churchill]] and [[H. G. Wells]] himself also feature as characters.
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