Time Machine Romance

H.G. Wells' seminal work of science fiction is the first in a new chronological series, brought to you by Spoken Realms and Stuart Gauffi. A century and a quarter after its original publication, this timeless classic still holds up as an extraordinary adventure into the distant future. Whether you're experiencing it for the first time or enjoying a visit with an old friend, this new narration is sure to become a favorite.

James Robert Scott was 13 when his parents died in an aircar crash and two years later his last remaining immediate family member, his grandfather a Nobel prize-winning physicist disappeared without a trace. On the day of his 19th birthday, a man with a stainless steel briefcase cabled to his wrist waited outside his classroom door. The letter contained in the case was addressed to James and was postmarked March of 1888, 157 years in the past. The letter indicated that the elder Scott was lost somewhere in time and contained the location of the Time Machine and access codes to the ...

In what many refer to as one of the first and greatest science fiction thrillers, a mysterious stranger wanders into an inn, wrapped head-to-toe in bandages. What lies beneath the bandages is something even more mysterious. As Wells tackles issues of identity, deception, and the deterioration of the human mind, listeners will be drawn into the story of the mysterious man, whose own mistakes end up whisking him into a whirlwind of deceit, terror, and even murder. In the end, the question will be asked: when your sense of self and identity vanish, who will you become?

A grief-stricken man travels back in time to seek revenge on the woman who murdered his girlfriend but inadvertently falls in love with her. Kane is about to marry the woman he loves. His life is perfect. A few weeks before the wedding, a vindictive woman from his girlfriend’s past mysteriously arrives and kills her. He learns of a traumatic accident that happened five years earlier, which triggers Riley’s hatred for his girlfriend. Distraught over his girlfriend’s death, Kane uses an antique time machine to travel into the past in order to find and destroy the woman responsible. When...

Archaeologist Olivia Carter has spent much of her life unearthing the secrets of the past, but nothing prepares her for the discovery of a mysterious pocket watch buried in a field on the outskirts of the historic city of Lincoln. With its intricate design and unexplainable weight, the watch captivates her, until she opens it and is thrust back into Victorian England. In a world of gaslights and corsets, Olivia meets Thomas Gresham, a dashing inventor with a vision of bridging the gap between the past and the future. Thomas has been waiting for her, convinced she holds the key to completing...

There are councilors to help you deal with all sorts of emotions through different traumatic events, but what if you knew one who could actually go back in time to change the past for you? It would save you the memories and process of ever having to deal with that event, and quite possibly alter your life as you know it. But once it’s changed, you’ll never know the difference from what you had lost to what you had gained. Gerard Conway is a smooth-talking group therapist and grief councilor with a couple of tricks up his sleeve that help maintain his private side business. If you’ve ...

Two of the greatest science fiction classics of all time...in one collection! H.G. Wells (1866 -1946) - the master of the genre - created his "scientific romances" and set the standard for futuristic literature that also teemed with both social commentary and a prescient view of the world to come.

The TimeStorm Series continues: Opposing tyranny has a cost, and life in 4000 BC will be their sentence. Captured by the Nash City Police, Kyle and Lara are sent back to the Neolithic Era via the time machine they invented. The process will erase their memories and force their spirit to merge with an existing host body. Separated by hundreds of miles, will they find each other again? In the far north, Rald wakes at the edge of a stream after a ghostly spirit touches his mind. Perhaps it is an omen that he is on the right path to the lost city of Atlan. If he finds it, the trade goods he ...

Twenty-six-year-old Beth needs no more drama in her life. Her job has become unstable leaving her with a shaky future. Dealing with a violent ex-boyfriend stalking her has been stressful enough. Now, on top of that, a serial killer’s on the prowl killing women who look like her. Meanwhile, Beth's brother, Russ, has spent his life dedicated to building a time travel machine he calls the Scorpion. It's now complete and ready for experimentation. Beth hates the contraption and wants no part of it. But when her life is threatened, the Scorpion’s her only means of escape. She's taken back to...

Jason Hutchinson's Scorching Hot Time-Travel Adventure! Matthew's Uncle Elijah just left him... ...the most incredible inheritance ever! Though he didn't inherit the beautiful old home he'd spent summers in as a child, he did inherit one particular room. As odd as that sounds, it wasn't until he'd examined the box that comprised the second part of his inheritance that he discovered his uncle's secret. The ability to travel back and forth in time and influence those participating in his timeline. In an epic adventure, Matthew travels to the 1940s and meets Cass the Working Lass, the iconic ...

H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells’ Time Traveller, a gentleman inventor living in England, traverses first thousands of years and then millions into the future, before bringing back the knowledge of the grave degeneration of the human race and the planet.

History is written in ink. But some love stories are written across time. Jake I wasn’t supposed to stay in 1875. I was just passing through—trying to survive long enough to get back to my own century. Then I met Joanna Calloway. She’s strong, stubborn, and far too brave for a world that chews up women like her. Falling for her was never part of the plan… but neither was saving a town from a deadly outbreak, standing up to ruthless men who believe they own her, or realizing the future I left behind suddenly means nothing at all. Every day I stay, I risk changing history. Every day I...

They’ve accidentally travelled two centuries into the past. But will the Regency era turn rivalry into romance? Lucy Bright and Francis de Montmort never intended to (literally) blow up their life’s work and get thrown back in time. Yet now the rivals find themselves trapped 200 years in the...

Antique Mirror Short Story inspired The Witches of Hant Hollow Trilogy. Victoria Frost, a Nashville artist yearning for a fresh start, stumbles upon a quaint farmhouse with an unexpected allure. At its heart is an antique mirror above the mantle, a relic that exudes both beauty and mystery. But this mirror is no ordinary heirloom—it holds a secret that will change her life forever. One evening, while talking on the phone with her art dealer and best friend, Max, Victoria glimpses a spectral figure in the mirror’s depths. Emboldened by curiosity and a touch of courage, she places her ...

Beth, now known as Emilie, did not return to the year 2016 with her brother, Russ. Instead, she left the life of partying and married Daniel. Daniel and his children, Anna, Sara, and Toby strove to teach her the way of the land. But Emilie still found life in 1860 quite challenging. When the family’s friend, Mrs. Knutson, learned of secret relatives, Daniel and Emilie accompanied her by wagon train to Saint Anthony. A trip which would’ve taken Emilie thirty minutes by car took three long days. But she trudged forward, determined to be strong even though calamity, with a side of nausea, ...

The year is 2340; nations have fallen, and the world has emptied. In North America, the last remnants of civilization are a few walled city-states ruled by autocrats. In Nash City, Kyle and Lara live a double life. During the day, they work at the technology center as engineers, while at night, they meet with the resistance movement working against the government. In their jobs, they are tasked with building a time machine that their leaders intend to use to alter the past and change the present. But the physics of time travel won’t bend to appease their rulers; those they send back will ...

What happens when a spirit fails to go into the light and needs to reach Spiritual Tech Support ? This is what Ruby Gold, bound in space and time, finds out when she meets Travis T. Alaska, an open minded physicist, who may be able to invent the Spiritual Telephone she needs to make the call. Their work results in what they consider a failure, but Dr. Angstrom sees as the ultimate success- a working time machine ! Working with dark governmental forces, Dr. Angstrom uses the machine to further his work on biological warfare, unleashing the Bubonic Plague upon fourteenth-century Europe. When ...

"Elementary, my dear Rand. It works because it's impossible!" - Quinn Schmul, eccentric inventor. A whirlwind tale of time travel, magic, science, coffee, geeks, logic, fallacy, and spaghetti. Rand likes his coffee, his sleep, and the study of philosophy. Especially philosophy. He craves the beauty and rigor of it. That's why he's studying formal logic at an age when he should be doing something far more sensible with his life. It's a mystery how he ended up getting roped into his girlfriend-inventor's latest experiment. Sure, yeah, Quinn has terrific hair, and as a barista in her day job, ...

THREE HEROES - THREE TIMES - A SINGLE DEADLY FOE In a world of magic one city is the focal point for a desperate struggle that is fought through all of time. Mages harness the powers of different elements – air, fire, ice, metal, even death – and wield that power in their struggle to survive. But one powerful mage can control time itself. Now mages and mortals alike find themselves allied against that power and three heroes, separated by vast gulfs of time, must find a way to save the magic, the great city and existence itself. From the author of Debt's Pledge comes a novel of magic and...

Gold Medal Winner in The Global Book Awards Contest for Science Fiction: Time Travel Issac Templeton is a successful attorney with a thriving law practice in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Aside from a few recurring nightmares, Issac is happy where he is in life, although he knows there is always room for improvement. Issac’s relationship with his headstrong artist girlfriend is challenging, but he understands that all good things take time and must be earned. Yes, Issac has built a successful career and a fulfilling personal life, one brick at a time. It is said, however, that life ...