H.G.威尔斯编写的《时间机器(英文版)》提出的四维空间的构想，对爱因斯坦十年后发明的狭义相对论和二十年之后发明的广义相对论有着极为有益的启示。威尔斯的其他作品也有同类特征。您知道“原子弹”这个词汇怎么来的吗？该词是威尔斯在作品《获得自由的世界》发明的。据说，原子弹也是受到了本书启发研制发明的。此外，世界大战的场面、上个世纪和本世纪的隐形技术、人与动物的器官移植技术，这些都能在威尔斯的作品中找到源头和影子。这些“科学假设”，极大地推动了人类科技进步的步伐。

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EPILOGUE

The Island of Doctor Moreau

INTRODUCTION

I. IN THE DINGEY OF THE "LADY VAIN."

II. THE MAN WHO WAS GOING NOWHERE.

III. THE STRANGE FACE.

IV. AT THE SCHOONER'S RAIL.

V. THE MAN WHO HAD NOWHERE TO GO.

VI. THE EVIL-LOOKING BOATMEN.

VII. THE LOCKED DOOR.

VIII. THE CRYING OF THE PUMA.

IX. THE THING IN THE FORE

X. THE CRYING OF THE MAN.

XI. THE HUNTING OF THE MAN.

XII. THE SAYERS OF THE LAW.'I

XIII. A PARLEY.

XIV. DOCTOR MOREAU EXPLAINS.

XV. CONCERNING THE BEAST FOLK.

XVI. HOW THE BEAST FOLKTASTE

BLOOD.

XVII. A CATASTROPHE.

XVIII. THE FINDING OF MOREAU.

XIX. MONTGOMERY'S "BANK HOLIDAY."

XX. ALONE WITH THE BEAST FOLK.

XXI. THE REVERSION OF THE BEAST FOLK.

XXII. THE MAN ALONE.