Men Like Gods: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Men Like Gods, credited to H. G. Wells, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells. Read in English by volunteer readers. In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers arrive in a world that corresponds exactly to Barnstaple's ideals: a utopian state, free of crime, poverty, war, disease, and bigotry. Unfettered by the constraints of government and organized religion, the citizens lead rich, meaningful lives, passed in pursuit of their creative fancies. Barnstaple's traveling companions, however, quickly contrive a scheme to remake the utopia in the image of their twentieth-century world. - Summary that was published with the book originally

Recording facts

• Recording title: Men Like Gods
• Author credits: H. G. Wells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 8:35:25

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• sci-fi
• science fiction
• utopian fiction
• hg wells

Track guide

1. 01 - Book 1 Chapter 1 Mr Barnstaple Takes a Holiday — 21:15
2. 02 - Book 1 Chapter 2 The Wonderful Road — 12:09
3. 03 - Book 1 Chapter 3 The Beautiful People — 24:37
4. 04 - Book 1 Chapter 4 The Shadow of Einstein Falls Across the Story and Passes Lightly by It — 18:55
5. 05 - Book 1 Chapter 5 The Governance and History of Utopia — 47:23
6. 06 - Book 1 Chapter 6 Some Earthly Criticisms — 58:48
7. 07 - Book 1 Chapter 7 The Bringing in of Lord Barronga's Party — 34:45
8. 08 - Book 1 Chapter 8 Early Morning in Utopia — 39:41
9. 09 - Book 2 Chapter 1 The Epidemic — 19:57
10. 10 - Book 2 Chapter 2 The Castle on the Crag — 41:13
11. 11 - Book 2 Chapter 3 Mr Barnstaple as a Traitor to Mankind — 51:27
12. 12 - Book 2 Chapter 4 The End of the Quarantine Crag — 19:48
13. 13 - Book 3 Chapter 1 The Peaceful Hills Behind the River — 18:02
14. 14 - Book 3 Chapter 2 The Loiter in a Living World — 49:31
15. 15 - Book 3 Chapter 3 The Service of the Earthling — 20:43
16. 16 - Book 3 Chapter 4 The Return of the Earthling — 37:11

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