The Time Machine by H G Wells - Audiobook Review

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Title: The Time Machine
Author: H G Wells
Narrator: Ralph Cosham
Publisher: Inaudio
Duration: 3 hours, 5 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Genres: science fiction, classic, time travel
Filed in: Audiobook reviews

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: H.G. Wells's first novel describes the adventures of his hero, the time-traveler, mostly in the year A.D. 802,701, when he encounters a class-ridden battle between the decadent Eloi and the primitive Morlocks. Michael York, as the time-traveler, evokes the wonder of the distant future.
Ride into the Weird Worlds of the Future. Experience the Time Traveller's shock at being trapped by cannibals 800,000 years from home! Meet the frail, pathetic Eloi... the clammy, ghostlike Morlocks who shun the daylight.
When Herbert George Wells wrote his marvelous stories about time and space, no one believed they would ever come true. They were pure fantasy, the creation of a writer's mind. But time marches on and space travel is now fact, not fantasy. Will time travel also become real? And what will real-life Time Travellers come up against when they visit the future?

MY THOUGHTS: “The Time Machine” is simply a fantastic tale, and H G Wells crafted it so cleverly. He never once delves into the boring details of how the time machine works, only that it does. And he sends the time-traveller so far into the future that no one will ever be able to look back and say “Wells was wrong about that.” Personally, if I had a time machine, I would go back in time to witness first-hand significant historical events.

H G Wells was born in Kent, England in 1866, and "The Time Machine", written in 1895, was his first novel.

NARRATOR: Ralph Cosham was not the stuffy and painfully proper Brit that I expected. In fact, I’m not sure he’s British at all, his speech sounds more like carefully enunciated American-English. At any rate, he did a fair job of narrating this audiobook, not stellar, but acceptable.

FINAL WORD: Most fans of science fiction have probably already read “The Time Machine", as well they should. I'm not sure if there's enough story here to interest anyone outside the genre, however.

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“War of the Worlds" by H G Wells
“1984” by George Orwell
“Around the World in Eighty Days” by Jules Verne

FILM ADAPTATION: “The Time Machine” was adapted to film in 2002. The film starred Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, and Jeremy Irons, and was directed by Simon Wells.

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