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The Time Machine

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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.

(P)1999 Blackstone Audiobooks Time Travel Science Fiction Classics Fiction Adventure Action & Adventure Steampunk
Classic Sci-fi • Thought-provoking Commentary • Engaging Performance • Unique Scientific Perspective • Philosophical Depth

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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.

Lots of prescience for its age

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

Time again

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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.

Finally some context for that Simpsons episode

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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 Clasic

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

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