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A peaceful night in Surrey is shattered when what is thought to be a meteor crashes into Horsell Common. Curious villagers approach the strange cylindrical object, only to be incinerated by a Martian heat-ray. Soon the invaders are sending out their terrible ’tripods’, causing devastation throughout England as ‘intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic’ gradually seek to eradicate the human race.

Mr. Hoopdriver is a frustrated draper’s assistant in Putney, London. He is badly paid, over-worked, and he needs a holiday. He also owns a bicycle—though he is an awkward rider. When his annual ten days’ holiday comes around, Mr. Hoopdriver sets out on a bicycling tour of the “Southern...

The selections in this collection include classic short stories "Bartelby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, "The Truth About Pyecraft" by H. G. Wells, "The Angel Child" by Stephen Crane, "A Journey" by Edith Wharton, "Phyllis and Rosamond" by Vriginia Woolf, and "The Flight of Betsey Lane" by Sarah Orne Jewett.

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...

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...

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...

At a dinner party in Richmond, the host tells an astonishing story of his travels into the future, where, at first, it seems that man has moved on to a higher plane of existence - suffering and war seem to have been eliminated. But in fact there are two races living on the Earth: the Eloi, a leisured, decadent, androgynous group; and the Morlocks, an underground tribe of bestial workers.

An early science-fiction novel by the prolific and notable writer H. G. Wells, War of the Worlds describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth and was highly influential, spawning several films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, and a television series based on the story. 

The 19th Century Classics Collection steps into the vibrant world of 19th century Europe, America, and Russia with this rich collection of literary masterpieces that continue to captivate listeners. From the dark allure of Dracula and the tragic romance of Anna Karenina to the moral complexities of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and the thrilling suspense of Wuthering Heights, this collection invites listeners to experience the enduring power of 19th-century storytelling.

Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to...

The Time Machine: A brilliant Victorian scientist travels to the astonishing year 802,701 AD. What initially appears to be a paradise inhabited by the peaceful and beautiful Eloi soon reveals a terrifying reality. Following the mysterious theft of his invention, the Traveler discovers the Morlocks, monstrous subterranean creatures who breed the surface-dwellers as livestock. Trapped in this divided future, he must fight tenaciously for his survival and recover his only means of escape before witnessing the freezing twilight of Earth.

The Invisible Man is a favorite science-fiction novel by H. G. Wells. 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.

Few ghost stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. Featuring work by H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, F.G. Loring and Florence Marryat, this second volume of eight enduring stories, some well-known, others less familiar, transport you to a cosy fireside to hear tales of disembodied voices, haunted objects and unknown entities lurking in the shadows cast by candlelight.

The War of the Worlds: In the late 19th century, humanity lived complacently, unaware that cold, superior intelligences were watching them from Mars. Soon, massive metallic cylinders crash into England, unleashing a relentless invasion. Armed with giant tripods, devastating Heat-Rays, and suffocating Black Smoke, the invaders quickly crush human resistance. Amidst the chaos, one man embarks on a harrowing journey through a ruined London to reunite with his wife. Just when human extinction seems imminent, the Martians succumb to the most unexpected ally: Earth's bacteria.

The War of the Worlds introduced the idea of alien invasion to the world. Featuring inscrutable extra-terrestrials armed with a terrifying array of weapons, including the Heat-Ray, robotic killing machines walking on three legs, and 'black smoke', the novel resonated with Victorian Britain. The ingenious creations of Wells' mind stood out from the abundance of invasion literature that was flooding the market at the time.

A Modern Utopia is a 1905 novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability".

A breath from the scalpel, a man slips beyond his body—and into the cosmos. Under general anesthesia, his consciousness watches the surgeons at work, then is flung skyward past London, beyond the Moon and Saturn’s rings, to the very edge of the universe where time dilates, stars thin to...

A haunting study of longing, memory, and the price of ambition. When rising statesman Lionel Wallace confides a lifelong secret to an old schoolmate, he reveals the vision that has shaped—and shadowed—his every choice: a green door set in a white wall, opening onto an enchanted garden of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A stranger walks into the Coach and Horses at Iping in the middle of a snowstorm, wrapped to the eyes, and takes a room he never leaves by daylight. He pays in gold, keeps his door locked, and speaks to nobody. When the landlady finally sees what is...

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.