Reading Tomorrow

“Call Me Joe” (novelette)
by Poul Anderson (1926-2001)
Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1957

From one of Jupiter’s smaller moons, the Solar System’s largest planet is studied by a team of dedicated researchers. One of their project’s primary tools is the pseudojovian, a powerful genetically-engineered creature designed to live in the harsh conditions of Jupiter’s surface, and controlled psionically from the research station with the help of a device called an esprojector. The first of the pseudojovians, “Joe,” is already on the surface, remotely controlled by a bitter quadriplegic named Edward Anglesey. (more…)

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (originally serialized in The New Review, January 1895 – May 1895, first published in 1895 by Henry Holt and Company)

For those few who may not know the plot: A nameless inventor in Victorian London tells his colleagues he has built a machine that can travel through time. A week later he arrives at dinner late and disheveled, and he regales them with a fantastic tale. He says he used his machine, and travelled eight hundred thousand years into the future. There he found that humanity has become two equally decadent species, the beautiful but frail Eloi and the brutal, subterranean Morlocks.

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