The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Michael York, Dave Davies, Ian Kerr

From H.G. Wells, the grand master of speculative fiction, comes The Time Machine, a literary and science fiction classic brought brilliantly to life in this full-cast audio adventure. In the heart of Victorian England an inquisitive inventor constructs a Time Machine that hurtles him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. There he finds himself in the violent center of the ultimate conflict between beings of the light and creatures of the dark.Public Domain Production ©1999 Star Quest Entertainment

Critic reviews

"His was the first time machine. His was the first invasion of Earth by other-world beings." (Isaac Asimov)

The Time Machine

Most of what is wrong about this audiobook is the poor quality audio recording the listener has to endure fror the last half of the book. Michael York does a nice job. I suggest finding another version of this classic to listen to.

Dramatisation

This should be more clearly identified as a dramatisation.. only after listening, I needed to go looking for the description and eventually found the text, "full cast audio adventure".

I've just finished listening to the excellent War of the Worlds, read by Sean Barrett, so I was a little disappointed to hear several actors in this, instead of just a narrator.

As for the audio itself, I found it quite difficult to listen to. The background sound effects and music sound as if someone has tried to clean up the background hiss.. but the result is little gaps of silence that are far more distracting than any hiss of low quality.

These little gaps of silence even break up the effects and music, to give the irritating effect of a flimsy headphone connection (and no, it's not my headphones).