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The father of modern science fiction: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds.
H. G. Wells was an English writer who invented much of modern science fiction: The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau and The War of the Worlds all came from him in just four years.
Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley to a shopkeeper's family and left school to work as a draper's apprentice, which he hated. A scholarship took him to London to study science under T. H. Huxley, the great defender of Darwin.
Between 1895 and 1898 he wrote The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, using science to ask hard questions about class, power and what it means to be human. He went on to write dozens of novels, histories and books about the future, and he died in London in 1946, having lived to see some of his predictions come true.
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's.
The Invisible Man
A scientist who makes himself invisible and cannot undo it. Our most-played Wells.
5 hr 25 min · read by George Griffin 
The Time Machine
The book that sent fiction into the far future.
3 hr 23 min · read by Declan McHugh 
The War of the Worlds
The original alien invasion.
7 hr 6 min · read by ROGER ARNOLD 
Narrated by Wayne Champion
A haunted traveler relives hyper-real dreams of a future statesman who chooses love over duty—unleashing apocalyptic war. Wayne Champion’s gripping performance brings Wel...
Narrated by Brett Carter
In a London of the far future, the rich live under great glass roofs while the poor labor below. Elizabeth, a young woman of the ruling class, and Denton, a man from a lo...
Narrated by Jason Michael Mann
Marooned on a lonely atoll, an egg hunter hatches a prehistoric giant and raises it, until nature turns on him. A taut survival tale of man versus the wild from H.G. Well...
Narrated by Eleesha Lewis
A game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty. H. G. Wells sets out the rules for fighting battles with toy soldiers on a lawn or living room floor, w...
Narrated by Merrie Lynn Eaker
A midnight tour of the ironworks becomes a deadly game of jealousy and revenge. Merrie Lynn Eaker’s gripping narration turns Wells’s industrial gothic into a white‑knuckl...
Narrated by Paul Landergan
A sighted climber finds a hidden Andean valley where everyone is blind—and his ‘advantage’ is called madness. Paul Landergan narrates this classic Wells fable of power, p...
Narrated by Richard Stibbard
In a dusty London shop, Mr. Cave keeps a crystal egg in the back room. He does not want to sell it. When he looks into it at the right angle, he sees a bright, strange la...
Narrated by George Griffin
A bandaged stranger’s terrible secret—he is invisible—plunges a quiet village into chaos. George Griffin delivers a gripping, atmospheric performance of Wells’s classic t...
Narrated by George Griffin
After a shipwreck, Edward Prendick is rescued and brought to a remote island in the Pacific. There he finds Doctor Moreau, a surgeon who has left England in disgrace, and...
Narrated by Brett Carter
A father takes his small son Gip to a tiny shop in London that sells magic. The shopkeeper does tricks that no ordinary conjuror could, and the boy is delighted. The fath...
Narrated by Myriam Berger
Two rival entomologists, Hapley and Pawkins, hate each other for years over moths, beetles and scientific honor. When Pawkins dies, Hapley should be relieved. Instead, he...
Narrated by Luke Oldham
After the First World War, H. G. Wells argued that nations, flags and old loyalties were leading the world toward ruin. His answer was what he called the Open Conspiracy:...
Narrated by Jane Wing
A young man says he is not afraid of ghosts and goes to spend the night in the Red Room of an old castle, a room said to be haunted. Three old caretakers warn him. He lig...
Narrated by Salathiel Reagan
Along the south coast of England, a pale, many-armed sea creature has been seen and a few people have gone missing. A group at a seaside resort watches as the creatures r...
Narrated by Michael Lyons
A new star appears and heads toward the sun. Astronomers watch it hit Neptune. Then it comes on toward the sun, and the Earth begins to feel its pull. The heat rises. Peo...
Narrated by Declan McHugh
A scientist in Victorian London builds a machine that can carry him through time. He travels to the year 802,701, expecting wonders. Instead he finds gentle, childlike pe...
Narrated by Myriam Berger
Three riders follow a trail across a vast, silent valley in the hills. They are chasing a man and a girl who have a day's start and only a mule between them. The leader i...
Narrated by ROGER ARNOLD
Late in the nineteenth century, strange flashes of light appear on Mars. Then cylinders fall to Earth near London. Out of them come tall tripod machines with a heat-ray,...
Narrated by Jason Miller
A vicar in an English village shoots a strange bird one night and finds he has wounded an angel. The angel recovers at the vicarage, and the more he sees of human life, t...
Born in Bromley, Kent.
Studies science in London under T. H. Huxley.
The Time Machine.
The Island of Doctor Moreau.
The Invisible Man.
The War of the Worlds.
Dies in London.
His novels of the 1890s introduced time travel, alien invasion and invisibility to fiction, and writers have borrowed from them ever since.
The Invisible Man is our most-played. The Time Machine is short and a great first listen.
His early novels are in the public domain in the United States. Each Academy Voices recording is a new performance by a real narrator.
Academy Voices has 19 H. G. Wells audiobooks, each performed by a real narrator, with a free sample on every one. Every recording is Certified Human Voice.
Reviewed October 2026 by the Academy Voices team. Sources: Wikipedia, Wikidata .
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