The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

The time traveler first steps out of his magnificent time-transport machine in the year 802,700. He finds Earth populated by a race of slender pacifists and decides to study this lush land of flower people before returning to his own age. These pacifists, he discovers, have built their wealth on the backs of a slave class forced to live below ground. As the conflict between them surfaces, the time traveler finds that his only means of escape, his time machine, has been stolen.

Wells' amazing view of the future, propelled forward from his own Victorian era to the present, serves both as classic science fiction and as a parable of the chasm between the working-class suffering and the upper-class privilege of his day.

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Lots of prescience for its age

Wells nails a lot about class dynamics even now 130 years later. The end is charming with its whimsy but the meat of the story is it’s commentary, which is as good as any written today.

Time again

I always loved this story. I can imagine it well in my head and dream of it being modernized.

Finally some context for that Simpsons episode

Not an amazing story on its own merits but still worth a listen to discover the origin of some modern stories.

The narration was just okay.

Great Clasic

It has been so long since I last read this book that I had forgotten it. The audible version was a nice way to recount the story. The performance was very good and kept me engaged.

Great classic

Great classic! Not the same story as the movie!
Narrator was fair, not great.
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Quick, Interesting, Easy Listen

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, this is an easy listen and is a great, classic book. It wasn't what I expected, but I enjoyed where the story went.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Could have definitely finished this book in one go. It was easy to digest and enlisted beautiful imagery.

Good story even for today...

Interesting but probably less fantastic 127 years into its own future. People read more then.

Excellent and sweet!

Great story! It answer two questions: What happens if we cease to fight; and what sort of simple inventory will serve as a testimony of the human nature...

Audio was excellent

Tale is fantastic for it’s age. The narration suits the Victorian England setting very well

Classic sci-fi

A classic sci-fi tale. The narrator does a great job of bringing the story to life.