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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if you fell asleep and woke up two hundred years in the future—only to discover that you owned the world? When Graham, an ordinary man living in Victorian England, falls into a mysterious trance, he awakens 203 years later in the year 2100. The...

This Misery of Boots is the expansion of a 1905 essay by H.G. Wells. He presents a very interesting view of society based on Wells’ observations on boots and the misery they cause to those unable to purchase well-fitting and well-designed boots. He advocates socialism as a way to solve this...

 The Time Machine is a science-fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term time machine, coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device. 

Eleven essential classics in one volume This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Published in 1973 to honor...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the closing years of the nineteenth century, an unnamed narrator watches a falling star land on Horsell Common, near London. It is not a meteor. Inside the cylinder, something has travelled across the emptiness between the worlds, and it has not come...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. ¿Hasta qué punto las pequeñas incomodidades de la vida cotidiana pueden convertirse en grandes obstáculos para nuestra felicidad y bienestar? En La miseria de los zapatos, H. G. Wells parte de un objeto tan común como el calzado para reflexionar...

In Book Two, the narrator and the curate witness a Martian machine seizing people and tossing them into a metal carrier. The narrator realises that the Martian invaders have plans for their victims. When a fifth Martian cylinder lands, both men are trapped beneath the ruins of a manor house. Hidden in the wreckage, the narrator observes the Martians in the impact pit and learns that they feed on blood, taken now from humans, and that they appear to communicate with some type of telepathy. The curate falls into despair.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Mr. Bessel, a respectable London businessman with a passion for psychic research, resolves to prove that the human spirit can leave its body at will. One November evening, he succeeds — projecting his consciousness out of his flesh to appear before a...

In the mid-1890s, aliens on Mars plot an invasion of Earth because their world is becoming uninhabitable. In the early 20th century, in the summer, an object thought to be a meteor lands on Horsell Common, near the narrator's home. It turns out to be an artificial cylinder launched towards Earth months earlier, as Earth and Mars approached opposition. Several Martians emerge and struggle with Earth's gravity and atmosphere.

Industrial smoke, moonlit steel, and one fatal invitation. In H.G. Wells’s searing tale of jealousy and betrayal, a celebrated artist is lured by the ironworks manager on a midnight tour through roaring furnaces and shuddering machinery. What begins as chilly politeness becomes a...

Shipwrecked on a speck of coral off Madagascar, professional egg hunter Butcher watches his last hope drift to sea—except for one priceless prize: an intact Aepyornis (elephant-bird) egg. When it hatches, the castaway finds unlikely companionship in the towering chick he names Friday. As the...

¿Hacia dónde irá la humanidad, miles de años en el futuro? ¿Evolucionaremos a seres avanzados, de inteligencia y sociedades superiores? ¿Volveremos a la edad de piedra, perdiendo el conocimiento de nuestros errores acumulados durante los años? Un científico victoriano buscará la respuesta a esta incógnita con su increíble máquina. La Máquina del Tiempo es una de las primeras novelas en popularizar el concepto del viaje temporal, y ha sido adaptada a varias películas y series del mismo nombre, entre ellas el éxito de taquilla de 2002, protagonizada por Guy Pierce.

H.G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France, and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars," World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particularly the introduction of the tank and aerial bombing on human nature.

Britain won the moon race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind", two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the moon. What they found was fantastic! 

H. P. Lovecraft 15 Essential Stories & H. G. Wells 7 Essential Stories: 22 stories of real fantastic, horror or science fiction classics. Lovecraft: The Temple, Dagon, The Music of Erich Zann, The Nameless City, Hypnos, The Outsider, The Colour out of Space, The Rats in the Walls, The History of Necronomicon, Azathoth, The Stolen Body, The Lurking Fear, The Whisperer in Darkness, Herbert West Reanimator, The Shadow over Innsmouth. H. G. Wells: The Valley of Spiders, The Magic Shop, Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation, Miss Winchelsea's Heart.

What happens when humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain? Deep within the suffocating, steam-choked wilderness of the Amazon, a bizarre distress call summons a Brazilian gunboat to the remote settlement of Badama. The enemy? Ants. But as the crew drifts closer, the mocking laughter...

Step into the vast imagination of classic speculative storytelling with The Pioneers of Science Fiction, a powerful anthology featuring some of the most influential voices in the genre’s history. This carefully curated collection brings together visionary works from Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley, Murray Leinster, and H. G. Wells—authors who shaped modern science fiction and forever changed the way we imagine the future.

In a dim antique shop in Seven Dials, Mr Cave stumbles upon a peculiar crystal egg. Beneath its polished surface lies a window to a distant world—a landscape of winged beings under two small moons. H.G. Wells’ brilliant tale quietly captures the wonder and solitude of peering across the void...

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, a sighted mountaineer named Núñez tumbles into a secluded valley where, for generations, every inhabitant has been blind. Convinced that his vision will make him ruler—after all, ‘in the country of the blind, the one‑eyed man is king’—he discovers a...

On a dusky English train, a man with a white face confesses the dreams that are killing him: night after night he wakes into another life, centuries ahead, as Hedon—a powerful statesman who abandons duty for the intoxicating pleasures of Capri and the woman he loves. When he refuses a final...