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Title: Hardly an appropriate Sequel
Review: Jeter utterly fails to make a convincing sequel to Wells' "The Time Machine" by worming magic and legend into a novel where it hardly belongs. Although Jeter does well in approximating Wells' style, his loping prose, he fails to carry through with the sort of "scientific romance" that so characterized Wells' work. Instead, "Morlock Night" is a piece of weak fantasy, almost entirely divorced from its scientific foundations, and almost impossible to finish. To add to the other wrongs, Jeter tries to reinterpret the Morlocks themselves, making them a highly technological species, and far removed from their origins, thereby dashing the allegories that Wells worked so hard to establish. If you must read a sequel to "The Time Machine", read "The Time Ships".
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