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Englishman Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on the open ocean. When a passing ship takes him aboard and revives him, things are starting to look less gloomy for the young scientist. Yet little does he know things about to get much worse. He is taken to an abandoned island occupied only by Dr. Moreau, a disgraced English scientist for his unethical treatment of live creatures. Prendick finds that the Doctor has been up to old habits, using the island's animals to create animal-human hybrids.

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 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 Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.

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.

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...

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! 

 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. 

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...

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...

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...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Country of the Blind is a single-story audiobook of H. G. Wells's classic short fiction, presented here in English and narrated by an AI voice. In a remote valley cut off from the outside world, an unexpected visitor comes upon a society shaped...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. El país de los ciegos es una colección de un solo relato del escritor británico H. G. Wells, narrada en español con voz de inteligencia artificial. El relato que la compone, El país de los ciegos, es un clásico de la ciencia ficción y la...

Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer, was a young man when he finally resorted to medication for his insomnia and fell into a deep sleep. He wakes two hundred years later, still youthful, to an age of great marvels and scientific achievement—and a world whose strange underlying economy is that...

Legendary author and futurist H. G. Wells turns his attention from imaginary worlds to the future of our own. Written in the turbulent years between the two world wars, Wells argues that humanity has become increasingly interconnected while remaining divided by nationalism, economic rivalry, and outdated political institutions. His “open conspiracy” is not a secret plot, but precisely the opposite: a public, voluntary movement of individuals committed to building a more rational, peaceful, and cooperative world.

¿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.