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The Chronic Argonauts by H. G. Wells in the Phoenix, 1980 (PDF) THE PHOENIX The Chronic Argonauts . by H.G.Wells Prologue. 'The Time Machine' by H. G. Wells, as we know it today, was first published the first version of 'The Time Machine' under the title 'The published by Heinemann at the end of May 1895. However, this Chronic Argonauts'. This story has never been reprinted; indeed, Mr classic story has a very interesting history behind it. For three Wells, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend, purchased different drafts of it were published prior to the Heinemann edition. all the back numbers of the Journal containing his work then in stock and Two of these earlier drafts appeared serially: the first in seven destroyed them. Fortunately, he did not lay his hands on the copies which installments in the National Observer between March and June are now in the possession of Imperial College Archives and contain all of 1894; the other, in five installments in the New Review between his nine contributions. The Chronic Argonauts, as previously outlined, January and June 1895. An American edition was published as a was eventaully published as The Time Machine; the other eight complete story by Henry Holt at the beginning of May 1895, hence contributions, typified by 'The Lay of the Sausage Machine', were, and antedating the definitive Heinemann edition probably never will be reprinted in any form. The Holt and National Observer 'Time Machine' are very similar; 'The Chronic Argonauts' was originally published in three parts the latter may still be read in its entirety in 'Early Writings in Science I (incidentally, not submitted as a whole, but for each issue, thus leaving and Science Fiction by H. G. Wells' (edited by R. Philmus and D. Y. even the editorial staff with cliffhangers) in 1888, it is now reprinted for Hughes). the first time in its entirety, with illustrations by Paul Williams. The New Review and Heinemann 'Time Machine' also resemble It is hoped that you will find it stimulating; it is certainly completely each other, except that the opening paragraphs of the first chapter, different to any previously published version of 'The Time Machine' together with a whole scene of the former are dropped for the latter; and in many ways resembles 'The Invisible Man' (published in 1897) in but may still be read in the aforementioned book by Philmus and its descriptions of village life. So, now read on ...... Hughes. In 1888, however, two years after inaugurating the 'Science Schools Journal' (changed to 'The Phoenix' in 1904) H. G. Wells S.J.Marshall Part I. The story from an exoteric point of view. Being the account of Dr. Nebogipfel's sojourn in Llyddwdd. About half-a-mile outside the village of Llyddwdd lads from gratifying their roses and daedal creepers, that Miss There was no intelligence of the Llyddwdd, by the road that goes 'up propensity to invade its deserted Carnot had first adorned the walls advent of a ' new inhabitant in quiet over the eastern flank of t he mountain interior, manifested itself in unusually with, spread now luxuriantly over the Llyddwdd. He came without a solitary called Pen-y-pwll to Rwstog, is a large destructive resentment against its lichen-filmed tiles of the roof, and in premonition out of the vast unknown farm-building known as the Manse. It external breakables. The missiles with slender graceful sprays timidly invaded into the sphere of minute village derives this title from the fact that it which they at once confessed and the ghostly cobweb-draped apart­ observation and gossip. He fell into was at one time the residence of the defied their spiritual dread, left ments. Fungi, sickly pale, began to the Llyddwdd world, as it were, like a minister of the Calvinistic Methodists. scarcely a splinter of glass, and only displace and uplift the bricks in the thunderbolt falling in the daytime. It is a quaint, low, irregular erection, battered relics of the old-fashioned cellar floor: while on the rotting wood Suddenly, and out of nothingness, he lying back some hundred yards from leaden frames, in its narrow windows; everywhere they clustered, in all the was. Rumour, indeed, vaguely averred the roadway, and now fast passing into while numberless shattered tiles about glory of purple and mottled crimson, that he was seen to arrive by a certain a ruinous state. the house, and four or five black yellow-brown and hepatite. Wood-lice train from London, and to walk Since its construction in the latter apertures yawning between naked and ants, beetles and moths, winged straight without hesitation to the old half of the last century this house has rafters in the roof also witnessed and creeping things innumerable, Manse, giving neither explanatory undergone many changes of fortune, vividly to the energy of their trajection. found each day a more congenial home word nor sign to mortal as to his having been abandoned long since by Rain and wind thus had free way to among the ruins; and after them in ever purpose there: but then the same the farmer of the surrounding acres for enter the empty rooms and work their increasing multitudes swarmed the fertile source of information also less pretentious and more com­ will there, old Time aiding and abetting. blotchy toads. Swallows and martins hinted that he was first beheld modious head-quarters. Among Alternately soaked and dessicated, the built every year more thickly in the skimming down the slopes of steep others Miss Carnot, "the Gallic planks of flooring and wainscot warped silent, airy, upper chambers. Bats and Pen-y-pwll with exceeding swiftness, Sappho" at one time made it her home, apart strangely split here and there, owls struggled for the crepuscular riding, as it appeared to the intelligent and later on an old man named and tore themselves away in corners of lower rooms. Thus, in the observer, upon an instrument not Williams became its occupier. The foul paroxysms of rheumatic pain from the Spring of the year eighteen hundred unlike a sieve and that he entered the murder of this tenant by his two sons rust-devoured nails that had once held and eighty-seven was Nature taking house by the chimney. Of these was the cause of its remaining for some them firm. The plaster of walls and over, gradually but certainly, the conflicting reports, the former was the considerable period uninhabited; with ceiling growing green-black with a rain­ tenancy of the old Manse. "The house first to be generally circulated, but the the inevitable consequence of its fed crust of lowly life, parted slowly was falling into decay," as men who do latter, in view of the bizarre presence undergoing very extensive dilapi­ from the fermenting laths; and large not appreciate the application of and eccentric ways of the newest dattoil. concussion and clatter gave strength human derelicts to other beings use inhabitant, obtained wider credence. The house had got a bad name, and to the popular superstition that old would say, "surely and swiftly". But it 'By whatever means he arrived, there adolescent man and Nature combined ,Williams and his sons were fated to was destined nevertheless to shelter can be no doubt that he was in, and in to bring swift desolation upon it. The continually re-enact their fearful another human tenant before its final possession of the Manse, on the first of 'fear of the Williamses which kept the , tragedy until the final judgment. White dissolution. May: because on the morning of that Page 23 day he was inspected by Mrs Morgan like leaves before a gale. He was quarters from the outer world. The The zenith sky was an ineffable deep ap Lloyd Jones, and subsequently by merely seeking the provision shop, apparently hieroglyphic inscriptions lucent blue, and the evening star hung the numerous persons her report however, and erupted thencefrom on these various consignments golden in the liquid darkness of the brought up the. mountain slope, after a prolonged stay, loaded with a revealed at the profound scrutiny of west. ,In the north-north-west, a faint engaged in the curious occupation of various armful of blue parcels, a loaf, Pugh Jones that the style and title of phosphoresence marked the sunken nailing sheet-tin across . the void herrings, pigs' trotters, salt pork, and a the new inhabitant was Dr Moses day. The moon was just rising, ,pallid window sockets of his new domicile - black bottle, with which he returned in Nebogipfel, Ph D, FRS, NWR; PAID; at and gibbous, over the huge haze­ "blinding his house" as Mrs Morgan ap the same swift projectile gait to the which discovery much edification was dimmed shoulder of Pen-y-pwll. Lloyd Jones not inaptly termed it. Manse. His way of shopping was to felt, especially among the purely Against the wan eastern sky, from the He was a small-bodied sallow faced name, and to name simply, without Welsh·speaking community. Further vague outline of the mountain slope, little man, clad in a close-fitting solitary other word of explanation, than this, these arrivals, by their the Manse stood out black, clear and garment of some stiff, dark material, civility, or request, the article he evident unfitness for any allowable solitary. The stillness of the twilight which Mr Parry Davies, the L1yddwdd required. mortal use, ' and inferentiC\I diabol- had hushed the myriad murmurs of the shoemaker, opined was leather. His day. Only the sounds of footsteps and aquiline nose, thin lips, high cheek­ voices and laughter, that came fitfully ridges, and pointed chin, were all small rising and falling from the roadway, and mutually well proportioned; bl.!t and an intermittent hammering in the the bones and muscles of his face were darkened dwelling, broke the silence.
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