ABSTRACT
H. G. Wells, in his 1895 classic The Time Machine, and Richard Powers, in his 2003 novel The Time of Our Singing, both investigate the light that time travel may shed on the future of both race and the human race. Wells, writing his short novel well before Albert Einstein published his research on the relativity of time and before racism laid the Europe of the twentieth century in ashes, famously predicts a dystopian outcome to all human e ort, which will lead to devolution, mongrelization, and fi nally the physical end of the race/s. Powers, however, setting his novel in the aftermath of World War II, perhaps a bit surprisingly, seems to fi nd hope for a future beyond race in an anticipated mixing of all races.
