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3 unusual facts about The Time Ships


Albert Stubbins

He also featured as a minor character in Stephen Baxter's time-travelling novel The Time Ships.

The Time Ships

Some time later, a German Messerschmitt plane arrives over the campsite, drops a Carolinum bomb (analogous to an atomic bomb in our world; see Wells's The World Set Free), and devastates the time-traveling Juggernauts and all but twelve of the Force.

The name carolinum and the continuous detonation are references to The World Set Free.



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