Question: Whose novella was the Time Machine: The Journey Back's predecessor film based on?
Context: Set in 1990, Jenny Brix lives in Iowa City.  She is a history buff.  She even has a Ronald Reagan picture when he was in his 20s as a lifeguard!  When she goes to a meeting, a very old professor has a heart attack.  Panicking, she uses CPR on him, thus saving his life.  After a few stops to the hospital, he asks her which US president she likes best.  She answers Ronald Reagan.  So then the professor tells her that she can go back in time and meet him.  She is shocked, but the professor keeps telling her it's true.  She finally believes him, sort of.  The professor takes her to Dixon, Illinois, Reagan's childhood home.  There the professor tells her she has 80 hours to stay out of the timezone, or her body will be used to the other timezones and can't come back to present day (1990).  When she goes into the time machine, it actually is set on 1832, instead of 1932 (where she was going).  She then meets Abraham Lincoln (who develops a little crush on her), and Chief Black Hawk during the Black Hawk War.  After all of that is straightened out, she goes to 1932 with less than half the time left she started with.  Once she gets there she sees a young, handsome Ronald Reagan going past her to save a person from drowning.  She then gets some friends, Scooter and Betsy.  They say there is a dance at Dixon's run down, old high school.  There she dances with Ronald and his brother.  While dancing with Ronald, she falls down the steps with him.  They then get a crush on each other.  After going on a few dates, she has to go to her original timezone.  She and Ronald have a sad exchange (Ronald doesn't know about the time traveling) when she has to leave.  Jenny then takes Scooter and Betsy to Lowell Park, where she shows them the time machine.  She then leaves, leaving the others dumbfounded.  When she comes back, professor says he is Scooter, and spent the rest of his life finding things about the time machine after she left until he finally made the time machine. Time Machine: The Journey Back is a combination documentary short-sequel to George Pal's 1960 film "The Time Machine", hosted by "Time Machine" star Rod Taylor and produced and directed by Clyde Lucas.  The film was produced in 1993 for airing on PBS stations. Time Machine is an American game show where contestants compete to answer trivia questions about popular culture and recent history to win prizes.  The show aired on NBC from January 7 through April 26, 1985 and was hosted by John Davidson.  Charlie Tuna was the announcer, with Rich Jeffries as his substitute.  Reg Grundy Productions produced the series, and upon its premiere "Time Machine" was one of three Grundy series airing on NBC ("Sale of the Century", which followed "Time Machine" on NBC's daytime schedule, and "Scrabble" were the other two). The Time Machine (also known promotionally as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American time travel science fiction film in Metrocolor from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced and directed by George Pal, that stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young.  The film was based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells that was hugely influential on the development of science fiction. "Road to Germany" is the third episode of the seventh season and the fourth episode of the 'Road To...' series of the American animated television series "Family Guy".  It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 19, 2008.  In the episode, Mort accidentally goes into Stewie's time machine and is sent to Warsaw, Poland on September 1, 1939.  Brian and Stewie realize Mort has gone back in time, and go in the time machine to save him. Twentysix Gasoline Stations is the first artist's book by the American pop artist Ed Ruscha.  Published in April 1963 on his own imprint National Excelsior Press, it is often considered to be the first modern artist's book, and has become famous as a precursor and a major influence on the emerging artist's book culture, especially in America.  The book delivers exactly what its title promises, reproducing 26 photographs of gasoline stations next to captions indicating their brand and location.  From the first service station, 'Bob's Service' in Los Angeles where Ruscha lived, the book follows a journey back to Oklahoma City where he had grown up and where his mother still lived.  The last image is of a Fina gasoline station in Groom, Texas, which Ruscha has suggested should be seen as the beginning of the return journey, 'like a coda'. The DeLorean time machine is a fictional automobile-based time travel device featured in the "Back to the Future" franchise.  In the feature film series, Dr. Emmett Brown builds a time machine based on a DeLorean DMC-12 car, to gain insights into history and the future.  Instead, he ends up using it to travel over 130 years of Hill Valley history (from 1885 to 2015) with Marty McFly to change the past for the better and to undo the negative effects of time travel.  One of the cars used in filming is on display at Universal Studios Hollywood. The New Adventures of the Time Machine is an adventure video game released in 2000, developed and published by Cryo Interactive Entertainment.  It is based on H. G. Wells' novella "The Time Machine" The Time Machine series of science fiction stories for children, published between 1959 and 1989 in "Boys' Life" magazine, featured a group of American Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine.  The Polaris Patrol visited the future and the past, sometimes recruiting new Scouts.  The stories used the time machine as a framework for history lessons, but also explored the consequences of having a time machine (as well as the various technologies the boys who discovered it obtain from the future). Donald Keith was a pseudonym for authors Donald (1888–1972) and Keith Monroe (1917–2003).  They are best known for their series of stories in the Time Machine series, which were originally published in "Boys' Life" magazine between 1959 and 1989.  Some of the stories were combined into two books, "Mutiny in the Time Machine" (1963) and "Time Machine to the Rescue" (1967).
Answer: H. G. Wells