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The Time Machine
- Author
- H. G. Wells
- Narrator
- Doug Myers
- Publish Date
- 20 February 2014
- Run Time
- 3 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Originally published in 1895, H. G. Wells' unequivocally visionary tale popularized the concept of time travel. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of a scientist and gentleman inventor who builds a machine capable of transporting a person through time, which he calls the fourth dimension. Propelling himself to the year 802,701, the man is delighted by what he finds: the Eloi, an elfin race who seem to have replaced the toil and suffering of the world with beauty and contentment. But not all is well in the world of the Eloi. What remains of this once-great culture now lives in fear of the terrifying Morlocks, an underground race who threaten the time traveler's return home.
H. G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre. This hugely influential novel, which questions our place on Earth, weaves in his ideas of sociology and the social impact of industrialization.
Critics Review
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“The savage brilliance of the young H. G. Wells—and the greatest science fiction novel ever written.”
Stephen Baxter, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Long Earth
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“Every time-travel story since The Time Machine is fundamentally indebted to Wells.”
Robert Silverberg, Nebula Award–winning author of A Time of Changes
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Details
- Author
- H. G. Wells
- Narrator
- Doug Myers
- Duration
- 3 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 February 2014
- ISBN
- 9781483012322
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction: time travel, Classic fiction
Synopsis
Originally published in 1895, H. G. Wells' unequivocally visionary tale popularized the concept of time travel. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of a scientist and gentleman inventor who builds a machine capable of transporting a person through time, which he calls the fourth dimension. Propelling himself to the year 802,701, the man is delighted by what he finds: the Eloi, an elfin race who seem to have replaced the toil and suffering of the world with beauty and contentment. But not all is well in the world of the Eloi. What remains of this once-great culture now lives in fear of the terrifying Morlocks, an underground race who threaten the time traveler's return home.H. G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre. This hugely influential novel, which questions our place on Earth, weaves in his ideas of sociology and the social impact of industrialization.
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