Abstract: Ford Madox Ford's notably un successful borrowings from scientific romance in his 1901 novel The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story are a crucial waystation on the way to the temporal confusion in The Good Soldier (1915). Understanding the genealogy that links H. G. Wells to that seminal work of high modernism also allows us to reconsider Ford's modernist narratological complexity in relationship to Wells's introduction of the novum of time travelling. This suggests science fiction's Menippean impulses were crucial ingredients in genres seemingly far afield.
John Plotz (Thu,) studied this question.