LibriVox Audiobook: The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells – read by Mark Nelson
H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (first published in 1895) is a groundbreaking work of science fiction that first introduced readers to the concept of traveling through time by mechanical means. In this visionary tale, an inventor known only as the Time Traveller recounts his astonishing journey to the year 802,701 CE and beyond. There he encounters two strange descendants of humanity: the gentle, childlike Eloi and the dark, subterranean Morlocks.
As the Traveller ventures further into the distant future, he witnesses not only the evolution of life on Earth but also a haunting vision of the planet’s eventual decline. Blending adventure, social commentary, and speculative imagination, Wells created a story that has been imitated countless times but never surpassed. More than a century later, The Time Machine remains a timeless classic of science fiction.
