

Time Machine
Author: H. G. Wells
Narrator: Stephen Zendt
Unabridged: 3 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: The Classic Collection
Published: 04/21/2015
Author: H. G. Wells
Narrator: Stephen Zendt
Unabridged: 3 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: The Classic Collection
Published: 04/21/2015
H.G. Wells is considered the father of science fiction. His works include The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man.
To the future and beyond. A group of people is greatly preoccupied by the absence of one of their friends. And serious concerns arise over his pitiful state when he finally returns to his home, raddled and haggard. The Time Traveler has been in the year 802,701 AD, and he has quite a story to tell......more
Returning to a novel you liked years ago is often a risky business, particularly so when the genre of that novel is science fiction. Nothing can age so rapidly as the past’s conception of the future, and what once seemed cutting edge may, after fifty years or more, appear simply ludicrous. Because of......more
The Time Machine is not primarily a novel about time travel, time travel paradoxes and so forth. It is chiefly a speculation on the far future of humanity and, closer to home, about class conflict and the evolution of the industrial civilisation. It starts as an almost casual chat by the fireside abo......more
Surely an oversight that I hadn't read H.G. Wells' The Time Machine before now. By all accounts, this is the original time travel story. Still, social class and how technical innovations change humanity are more central to the story than whether the narrator was actually able to travel to 802,701 AD......more
The Wellsian classic - a man recounts his adventures in his Time Machine. in which he travelled many years into different points in the future to a cynical audience. The reason I feel that Well's sci-fi ages so poorly is because he tied it into a Victorian perspective, although in his defence, he st......more