The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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09/10/22

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496m

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The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells audiobook.

Genre: scifi

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! There was not only air and water, but the Moon was honeycombed with caverns and tunnels in which lived an advanced civilization of insect-like beings. While Bedford is frightened by them and bolts home, Cavor stays and is treated with great respect.

So why didn't Armstrong and later astronauts find the evidence of all this? Well, according to broadcasts by Cavor over the newly-discovered radio technology, he told the Selenites too much about mankind, and apparently, they removed the welcome mat!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:36:54) Chapter 2

(00:54:17) Chapter 3

(01:12:20) Chapter 4

(01:21:25) Chapter 5

(01:34:46) Chapter 6

(01:44:23) Chapter 7

(01:55:47) Chapter 8

(02:05:11) Chapter 9

(02:25:07) Chapter 10

(02:37:15) Chapter 11

(03:00:51) Chapter 12

(03:11:05) Chapter 13

(03:27:28) Chapter 14

(03:39:43) Chapter 15

(04:03:08) Chapter 16

(04:20:26) Chapter 17

(04:42:47) Chapter 18

(05:02:10) Chapter 19

(05:26:45) Chapter 20

(05:43:46) Chapter 21

(06:15:45) Chapter 22

(06:24:43) Chapter 23

(06:42:40) Chapter 24

(07:22:50) Chapter 25

(07:58:25) Chapter 26

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Little Wars by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook [family]

September 9, 2022

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108m

Little Wars by H. G. Wells audiobook.

Genre: family

A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. With an Appendix on Kriegspiel

Miniature wargaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with certain of his friends, took their childhood toys and turned play into acceptable middle-aged sport by subjecting the exercise to the civilizing influence of actual rules.

While wargaming progressed far past these beginnings, Wells observes how 'little wars' with even his elementary rules can suggest the wholesale crudity of the real thing.

'You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realise just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but--the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realisation conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.'

Wells leaves almost hanging the tantalizing concept that we might someday simulate war, as an instrument of international decision-making, rather than practice actual combat. But most of this book is just the fun of evicting the boys from the playroom and spending happy days there, away from the 'skirt-swishers', developing the framework under which two gentlemen might meet and accumulate boastable victories!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:29:11) Chapter 2

(00:50:11) Chapter 3

(01:11:47) Chapter 4

(01:22:51) Chapter 5

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Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

September 10, 2022

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120m

Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the cramped offices of Wall Street, Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener follows a cautious, self-satisfied lawyer who prides himself on running an orderly business with minimal disturbance. To keep up with an increasing workload, he hires a new copyist, Bartleby, a pale, quiet man whose diligence at the desk initially seems like a blessing. But when asked to perform even the smallest task beyond copying, Bartleby answers with a baffling refrain: 'I would prefer not to.' As his refusals spread from one request to the next, the lawyer finds his authority, patience, and sense of moral responsibility tested in ways he never anticipated. Caught between sympathy and self-preservation, he struggles to understand Bartleby's motives, the limits of charity, and what society owes to those who will not-or cannot-fit its expectations. With dark humor and mounting unease, the story turns a simple workplace dispute into a haunting meditation on isolation, conformity, and the quiet forms of resistance that can unravel a life and a city built on routine.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:27) Chapter 02

(01:09:12) Chapter 03

(01:34:41) Chapter 04

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