id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-328 The Time Machine - Wikipedia .html text/html 8146 662 74 The statue of the Sphinx is the place where the Morlocks hide the time machine and references the Sphinx in the story of Oedipus who gives a riddle that he must first solve before he can pass.[19] The Sphinx appeared on the cover of the first London edition as requested by Wells and would have been familiar to his readers.[17] In 1960, the novella was made into an American science fiction film, also known promotionally as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine. It was a modernization of the Wells's story, making the Time Traveller a 1970s scientist working for a fictional US defence contractor, "the Mega Corporation". Classics Illustrated was the first to adapt The Time Machine into a comic book format, issuing an American edition in July 1956. Paul Schullery's The Time Traveller's Tale: Chronicle of a Morlock Captivity (2012) continues the story in the voice and manner of the original Wells book. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-328.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-328.txt