Men Like Gods, H. G. Wells
Men Like Gods, H. G. Wells
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Men Like Gods

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Martha H. Weller

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/18/2025

Synopsis

Writing this novel in 1923, H. G. Wells called it a “scientific fantasy.” He featured a utopia located in a parallel universe. “The grabbers and fighters, the persecutors and patriots, the lynchers and boycotters and all the riff-raff of short-sighted human violence, crowded on to final defeat. Even in their lives they know no happiness, they drive from excitement to excitement and from gratification to exhaustion. Their enterprises and successes, their wars and glories, flare and pass. Only the true thing grows, the truth, the clear idea, year by year and age by age, slowly and invincibly as a diamond grows amidst the darkness and pressures of the earth.” Enjoy H. G. Wells writing 100 years later and find the ideas still relevant!

About H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was born Herbert George Wells on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, England. Wells came from a working class background. His father played professional cricket and ran a hardware store for a time. Wells’s parents were often worried about his poor health. At the age of 7, Wells had an accident that left him bedridden for several months. His first novel, The Time Machine, was an instant success and Wells produced a series of science fiction novels which pioneered our ideas of the future. His later work focused on satire and social criticism. Wells laid out his socialist views of human history in his Outline of History. Wells forecasted the rise of major cities and suburbs, economic globalization, and aspects of future military conflicts. Remarkably, considering his support for women and women’s rights, Wells did not predict the rise of women in the workplace. He died in 1946. 

About Martha H. Weller

Martha H. Weller has always loved reading and had eclectic tastes ranging from self-help and training books to fictional works and the classics. She has advanced degrees in French, but also studied German and Spanish. She worked in technology-based fields both as a designer of educational materials and a developer/programmer of multimedia content.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on December 02, 2023

One does not simply walk into the center of the Earth. Young student Axel and Professor Otto Lidenbrock, studying a very old manuscript, discover an ancient pathway into the center of the Earth. They immediately travel to Iceland, and with the assistance of Hans, a local guide, they find an entran......more

Goodreads review by Tharindu on June 10, 2022

"Et quacumque viam dedent fortuna sequeamur" (Therever fortune clears a way, Thither our ready footsteps stray) If Jules Verne is known for one thing, that is for being exceptionally thorough. When I read Mysterious Island sometime back, the sheer amount of scientific data were shocking. It was li......more

Goodreads review by Manny on September 12, 2011

Why does Jules Verne often remind me of Monty Python? I mean, it's not funny or anything. Perhaps I was struck by the fact that Robur-le-conquérant doesn't just feature a flying machine called the Albatross, but also gives you a precise figure for the speed of a swallow. Anyway, with further apologi......more

Goodreads review by James on December 16, 2016

"As long as the heart beats, as long as your body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life" I thought this book was brilliant and superbly well written by Venre as I will summarise below. It follows 3 main characters:- 1) Professor Lidenb......more

Goodreads review by Leo on November 14, 2019

When I was young I read this book and most of his others too. I used to wonder about the Hollow Earth and often compared it to Middle Earth and Midgaurd. Alice down the rabbit hole. Shamballa and Hades. Like At The Earths Core this book opens the imagination to an inner realm. I have researched this......more

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