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  • The H. G. Wells Science Fiction Collection

  • The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, & The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • By: H. G. Wells
  • Narrated by: Tom Logan
  • Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The H. G. Wells Science Fiction Collection

By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Tom Logan
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Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne.

The H. G. Wells Science Fiction Collection contains:

Book 1: The War of the Worlds is HG Wells’ dramatic science-fiction tale of aliens invading England. The story is narrated in the first person by two brothers as the aliens criss-cross the country in their three-legged machines, destroying everything in their path with heat rays and poison gases.

Book 2: The Time Machine is about an English scientist who entertains guests for dinner every week. One day, he tells them that time is a navigable fourth dimension, displaying a little model of a time machine. At dinner the following week he entertains the guests with a remarkable tale.

Book 3: The Invisible Man is a science-fiction novel originally serialized in a weekly magazine in 1897. It was published as a novel later the same year. The invisible man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has invented a way of rendering a body invisible by means of changing a body's refractive index. He carries out this procedure on himself and becomes invisible, but fails to reverse it. After committing a spate of crimes in the village of Iping and the town of Port Burdock, he is finally apprehended by a mob.

Book 4: The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science-fiction novel narrated by Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat and left on the island home of Doctor Moreau. An eminent physiologist from London whose experiments in vivisection had been exposed, the Doctor fled England and continued his experiments on a remote island where he creates mutant beings from animals. The themes of the novel include philosophical perspectives on pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature.

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they were great stories, but the quality was poor. Every once and a while the reader would repeat words over and over, and the sound would break up alot.

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A few issues

The story had many skips. Not sure how to explain that. The reader was just slow and dull. It would have been awesome if the reader could have been RC Bray. That would have been perfect. The stories are wonderful but should not have been made so boring by the reader.

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great classic stories bad editing

any scifi buff will know these tales. but every few paragraphs there is an audio hiccup. i am guessing where the reader paused for a breath or backed up to redo a word and when they pick up again it is in the middle of a word causing a frequent stutter in the playback. and the narrator is very bland. especially war of the worlds should be read with feeling.

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