What if the time machine gets in an ancient world where it doesn't belong?
What if someone travelled back to the ancient age in the George Pal film Time Machine? He or she will appear from nowhere in a magnificient "throne-sled" with a spinning "sun-disk", in front of the people who knows absolute nothing about time travel and the time traveller will be worshipped as a god ... (If the time traveller is trying to explain time travel for the ancient people he or she will instead be executed as a sorcerer/witch ...)
Since 1997 am i writing an epic fantasy novel "The Tiaras of Power" and i am using the time machine in it, in a cultural-logic way. Warning! This means that the time machine is used in a new and totally different way than usual and can be mistakenly interpreted as barbaric. Read the disclaimer here.
In my fantasy world
Artezania, there is an empire called Matebia and there is an emperor worshipped
as the Son of the Sun and he is sitting in the time machine, which is called
"The Holy Throne-sled of the Nameless Prophet" (because the matebians
can't read the inscription "Manufactured by H. George Wells" on the
panel).
The emperor is coming every vernal equinox in the Temple of the Sun (because
he is always travelling forward one year at a time) and the people of the Matebia
are watching him emerging and disappearing in a "magical" way, believing
that the emperor is a true son of the Sun-God. And look at the time machine
itself! It is beautiful, it has a sceptre (the lever!), it looks like an imperial
throne and it has also a copper dish in the shape of a rising sun which is spinning
across the sky and behind the emperor!
About the Matebian
Empire with a lot of pictures, click here.
About my time machine models, click here.
Warning: Culture Shock! Click here.
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News in February
7:th 2006: The painstaking
reconstruction of the sequel Time Machine III has
just begun!