The Time Machine Audiobook (Free)

Originally published in 1895, H. G. Wells’ unequivocallyvisionary story popularized the concept of period travel. Set in VictorianEngland, it tells the storyplot of the scientist and gentleman inventor who builds amachine with the capacity of carrying a person through time, which he calls thefourth dimensions. Propelling himself to the year 802,701, the man is certainly delightedby what he finds: the Eloi, an elfin race who appear to have changed the toiland struggling of the world with beauty and contentment. But not all is well inthe globe of the Eloi. What continues to be of this once-great culture now lives infear of the terrifying Morlocks, an underground race who threaten the timetraveler’s come back home.

H. G. Wells was a pioneer of the technology fictiongenre. This greatly influential book, which questions our put on Globe,weaves in his concepts of sociology and the social effect of industrialization.