Hollywood fans — imagine this: a blockbuster sci-fi film directed by Simon Wells, the great-grandson of H. G. Wells himself. That’s right — the man who invented time travel on the page had his own family carry the legacy onto the big screen. The Time Machine isn’t just a novel; it’s the original blueprint for every epic time-travel movie ever made.
This is the story that started it all — a Victorian inventor builds a machine capable of breaking through the very fabric of time, hurtling him hundreds of thousands of years into Earth’s future. What he finds is both wondrous and horrifying: a world divided between the gentle, childlike Eloi and the dark, underground Morlocks. As the Time Traveller fights to survive in this distant world, he also discovers the chilling truth about humanity’s fate.
This audiobook pulses with Hollywood adventure energy — dazzling imagination, heart-pounding suspense, and the kind of world-building that inspired everything from Back to the Future to Interstellar. Listening to it feels like stepping into a cinematic masterpiece — complete with danger, wonder, and philosophical depth.
If you love mind-bending sci-fi, stunning time-travel stories, and films that make you question the future, press play and experience the classic that launched a genre — brought to life by the family legacy that made it Hollywood history.
Chapters
- (00:00:00) - The 4-D paradox
- (00:09:03) - The Time Traveller
- (00:17:28) - THE TIME TRAVELER
- (00:20:55) - The Life of the Time Traveller
- (00:28:05) - The Time Traveller
- (00:34:34) - Experiencing the Time Machine
- (00:45:44) - The Adventure in the Time Machine
- (00:55:05) - A taste of the Phoenician wedding
- (00:57:00) - Dinner with the remote future
- (01:00:53) - Disguised as a child in the world
- (01:10:43) - The reasons for the deserted buildings of mankind
- (01:14:59) - The Time Machine
- (01:24:14) - THE TIME COMPUTER
- (01:29:42) - A taste of the Thames Valley
- (01:31:57) - The world of 800 and 2,701
- (01:41:23) - Black Ghosts
- (01:43:28) - The sun was hotter than we know
- (01:52:58) - The Fall of the Human Race
- (01:56:13) - The Morlocks and the Time Machine
- (01:57:22) - THE TIME LORD
- (02:08:30) - The Tale of the Morlocks
- (02:11:50) - The Fear of the Dark Nights
- (02:21:23) - The Night I Was Polished by the Morlocks
- (02:28:20) - The Palatial Palace of Green Porcelain
- (02:39:50) - How to Break Down the Time Machine
- (02:45:04) - THE WHITE SPIRIT
- (02:54:23) - The Morlocks Against the Fire
- (03:02:04) - The Life of the Sphinx
- (03:09:25) - THE TIME MACHINE
- (03:21:08) - The Story of the Time Machine
- (03:29:09) - The Time Traveller
- (03:37:02) - The End of the Time Machine
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