検索キーワード： 著者 "H.G. Wells" すべてのカテゴリー

Bei einer Zugfahrt kommen zwei Männer miteinander ins Gespräch, während dessen der ältere ausführlich über einen Traum berichtet, der ihn durch seinen Realismus an den Grenzen und Vorstellungen der Wirklichkeit zweifeln lässt. Er schildert darin die Vision eines zukünftigen grausamen Krieges, in welchem die 100%ig patriotischen Schafsköpfe von ihren politischen Führern zu unmenschlichen Bestien aufgewiegelt und neuartige Kriegsmaschinerien eingesetzt werden. Wells reflektiert in dieser Erzählung seine Vorahnung des ersten Weltkriegs.

In "Der gestohlene Bazillus" entwendet ein Anarchist einem Bakteriologen eine tödliche Virenart, die sich glücklicherweise der glorreichen Absicht des Anarchisten - der Zerstörung der Welt - als leicht unzweckmäßig erweist. In "Die Triumphe eines Ausstopfers" referiert ein erfahrener Ausstopfungs-Spezialist über die grotesken Aufträge, denen er in seiner Berufspraxis die Ehre hatte nachkommen zu dürfen.

Von den Schrecken des ersten Weltkrieges erschüttert, greift Wells den humanistischen Faden des Gedankenguts der Aufklärung auf und überträgt diesen auf den notwendigen Menschen der Zukunft, der frei von religiösen und nationalstaatlichen Dogmen für universale Werte wie Moral, Wahrhaftigkeit, Gerechtigkeit und Verständnis steht.

Alle Kriege überwunden, alle Krankheiten ausgerottet, alle religiösen Zwistigkeiten gelöst, den Hunger besiegt, von Arbeit befreit und was jetzt? Ein Zeitreisender besucht eine ferne Zukunft und sieht sich mit diesem "himmlischen Paradies" konfrontiert, das hinter seiner augenscheinlichen perfekten Fassade die Abgründe der Hölle in sich birgt.

Gott sei Dank sind die unglaublichen Aufzeichnungen des Edward Prendick von dessen Neffen veröffentlicht worden. Unglücklichste Umstände gewähren dem Briten Prendick Zugang zu einer Insel, auf welcher der Wissenschaftler Dr. Moreau, ungestört von ethischen oder moralischen Zwängen, die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Tier erforscht, indem er diverse Mischwesen kreiert. Sind Tiere womöglich die besseren Menschen und sind manche Menschen nicht schlimmer als Tiere?

Few ghost stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. Featuring work by H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, F.G. Loring and Florence Marryat, this second volume of eight enduring stories, some well-known, others less familiar, transport you to a cosy fireside to hear tales of disembodied voices, haunted objects and unknown entities lurking in the shadows cast by candlelight.

Raconteurs Audio and Spoken Realms team up once again to bring this second collection of short stories by H. G. Wells to audio. Written between 1894 and 1902, this anthology of 13 stories delves into botany, flying machines, travel, distant lands and customs, virology, magic, taxidermy, journalism - and there’s even a ghost story.

The shipwrecked Edward Prendick is rescued by the passing ship Ipecacuanha, which is carrying a cargo of animals. On board he comes across Montgomery, who appears to have a grotesque servant named M'ling. They are put ashore onto an island that is owned by Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist, who is known for his infamous experiments in vivisection.

Wells’ dystopian fiction masterpiece! A man sleeps for 203 years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The future is revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.

Hoping to create a new growth agent for food with beneficial uses to mankind, two scientists find that the spread of the material is uncontrollable. Giant chickens, rats, and insects run amok, and children given the food stuffs experience incredible growth and serious illnesses.

Wells' new vision for the world. A comet causes "the nitrogen of the air" to "change out of itself". The result: "The great Change has come for evermore, happiness and beauty are our atmosphere, there is peace on earth and good will to all men."

H. G. Wells was known as the father of science fiction, but his creative genius encompassed far more that a single literary genre. He was also a visionary, a satirist, a sociologist and an historian. This third audio anthology of H. G. Wells’ Short Stories produced by Raconteurs Audio in collaboration with Spoken Realms, brings together some his lesser known short stories.

Mr. Barnstaple is an average man living in English in the early 1900s. He is a journalist and after facing a stressful time at his newspaper decides to take a vacation. But his vacation goes from ordinary to extraordinary in an instant when his vehicle is transported to an alternate world, one called Utopia.

The Time Machine is a science-fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term time machine, coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.

Britain won the moon race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind", two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the moon. What they found was fantastic!

H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells’ Time Traveller, a gentleman inventor living in England, traverses first thousands of years and then millions into the future, before bringing back the knowledge of the grave degeneration of the human race and the planet.

Written in 1924, The Dream tells the story of a man from a utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from birth to his untimely death. Weaving the lives of Sarnac, a biologist from the year AD 4000, and Harry, a man whose life was ended too soon, Wells creates a mystical connection between two very different time periods. This classic science-fiction novel with a splash of romance has captivated audiences for generations.

A version of H.G. Wells' chilling tale of alien invasion that every child can enjoy. It begins as the sky lights up with bright cylinders from Mars that look like falling stars - and continues as the Martians emerge from their vessels with machines of fire and deadly smoke.

H. G. Wells' sobering, thought-provoking novel is one of the greatest works of science fiction ever created - and as powerful today as when it was written. After inventing a machine that moves through time, the Traveler leaves Victorian London and goes far, far into the future. At first, the world he discovers seems peaceful and prosperous. But as he looks below the surface, he realizes that things are not exactly as they first appeared. Retold from the H.G. Wells original by Chris Sasaki.

This thrilling anthology contains five action-packed tales of incredible journeys, a murderous treasure hunt, invaders from outer space and international espionage - all read in full by some of the very best voice actors.