After his first fictional foray into time travel (“The Chronic Argonauts”), Wells
anonymously published a series of seven fictionalized essays in The National Observer
that contained the genesis of what was to come.
— Michael Main
‘Possibly not,’ said the Philosophical Inventor. ‘But now you begin to see the
object of my investigations into the geometry of four dimensions. I have a vague inkling
of a machine—’
DEBUT
The National Observer Essays, 7-part serial, National Observer,17
March 1894 to 23 June 1894 [nonconsecutive issues].
VARIANTS
Debut. The National Observer Essays, 7-part serial, National Observer,17 March 1894 to 23 June 1894 [nonconsecutive issues].