DescriptionIn this fully dramatized version of H.G. Wells' classic The Time Machine, Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast members from Star Trek feature films and all four series take you on an incredible journey. When a time traveler seeks a better world 802, 000 years into the future, his optimism is shaken when he discovers that the human race has turned upon itself in a primal display of horror. Featuring virtuoso performances from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music, Alien Voices' production of The Time Machine is an adventure in sound.
DescriptionAt once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world. In H.G. Wells's classic tale, a time traveler journeys to the distant future and finds the earth a lush Eden, populated by the gentle, pacifistic Eloi. However, he soon sees the dark side of this paradise when his time machine is stolen, trapping him in the future. To recover it, he must confront the Eloi's dreaded cousins and masters of the underworld, the Morlocks. Ralph Cosham's excellent performance of this classic distopian novella was the key in earning it AudioFile's Earphones Award.
DescriptionThe year is 1763. Gideon Seymour, cutpurse and gentleman, hides in dense underbrush from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels away like fabric and from the gaping hole fall two curious-looking children. Peter Schock and Kate Dyer have fallen str…
DescriptionWhat do you do when someone claiming to be a long lost relative shows up on your doorstep with 32 lumpy black valises? The Spellbound family lets Borgel move into their spare room. Things seem to go back to normal - until the night Melvin, Borgel, and Fafner, the family dog, hit the highway in Borgel's hot-wired 1937 Dorbzeldge sedan. It's no ordinary road trip, either, as the Dorbzeldge hurtles through time and space at 372, 000 miles a second. Pinkwater fans and armchair time travelers alike will ponder the mysteries of space, time, and the Other and laugh out loud - repeatedly - as they listen to this wildly imaginative novel.
DescriptionHere is the sequel a generation has been waiting for! When Time and Again was published in 1970, it generated a loyal following that grows larger with each passing year. Now, Jack Finney revisits the same magical territory and finds Ruben Prien still at work on the Project, still dreaming of altering man's fate by going back in time to adjust events. Once again, Simon Morley is the conduit to that bygone era, the man who proved himself capable of traveling through time. This time, he does so with a grand purpose: an attempt to prevent World War I. The world may never be the same.
DescriptionFrom one of the most prestigious literary science fiction writers in modern times, Robert Silverberg's Hunters in the Forest explores a distant future where vacationers travel back to the time of dinosaurs. After a chance meeting, Tom Mallory questions whether or not to return to civilization - with all its trappings and conveniences. Mallory must choose between an artificial life and a natural one.
DescriptionScience fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of old New York blend together in this spellbinding story of a young man embroiled in a secret government experiment. Transported from the mid-1900s to the New York of 1882, Si Morley solves a mystery of the 20th century by discovering its 19th-century roots, and falls desperately in love with a beautiful young woman in the process. He ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past. This is the classic novel that has captivated an entire generation since its original publication in 1970.
DescriptionIn the discreet little Key West bar that Jake Stonebender established, Fast Eddie Costigan learned to curse back at parrots as he played the house piano; the Reverend Tom Hauptman learned to tend bar bare-chested, and Long-Drink McGonnigle discovered the…
DescriptionJasper Fforde's time-traveling and fiction-jumping detective Thursday Next is an international hit with fans and critics. Beginning with The Eyre Affair, a Book Sense Top 76 Pick, Thursday's adventures have all cracked The New York Times bes…
DescriptionThis extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36, and were married when Clare was 22 and Henry 30. Impossible but true, because Henry has Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his past, present, and future. The Time Traveler's Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's marriage and their passionate love for each other.
