 Bear told Locus magazine in August 2008 that he had found what appears to be a " continuity " in British science fiction : H. G. Wells 's The Time Machine ( 1895 ) , Arthur C. Clarke 's The City and the Stars ( 1956 ) , and Hodgson 's The House on the Borderland ( 1908 ) and The Night Land ( 1912 ) , all speculate on the evolution of humankind in the deep future . Bear said that these works , and their author 's imagination , were a big influence on City at the End of Time . 
