Tales of Space and Time

H. G. Wells

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

(4 stars; 88 reviews)

Five short Science Fiction stories. - Summary by Richard Kilmer (8 hr 23 min)

Chapters

The Crystal Egg	48:47	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Star	31:16	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Stone Age - Part 1 - Ugh-Lomi and Uya	41:24	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Stone Age - Part 2 - The Cave Bear	31:00	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Stone Age - Part 3 - The First Horsemaan	27:00	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Stone Age - Part 4 - Uya the Lion	25:35	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Stone Age - Part 5 - The Fight in the Lion's Thicket	26:28	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Days to Come - Part 1 - The Cure for Love	43:56	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Days to Come - Part 2 - The Vacant Country	46:26	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Days to Come - Part 3 - The Ways of the City	49:28	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Days to Come - Part 4 - Underneath	45:19	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Story of the Days to Come - Part 5 - Biindon Intervenes	40:53	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles - A Pantoum in Prose	46:18	Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

Reviews

Great book....Frustrating reader.....

(2.5 stars)

Tony Standen

Enjoyable storys, read with a voice of velvet quality. Unfortunatly, the constant addition of non existant commas and pauses ruins the flow, and distracts the ear from the bri lliance of Wells's prose. In parts, especially in the first story, there seems to be a pause between every two or three words. Very frustrating to listen to. Having said that, if you can put up with this annoyance, the storys are as interesting as many of Wells's other works.

ehh

(2.5 stars)

uncle hustle

great voice but he... has .......really strange rhythm.

Loved It

(5 stars)

Byron Lee Scott

What a great collection of stories! I agree with the comments about the reader, though his voice does have a nice tone and I thank him for taking the time. By the way, the final book, the man who could work miracles, was released as an old black and white movie that I saw on YouTube. Rare occurrence, the movie is actually much better than the short story.

Yeah

(3 stars)

Terry America

The reader had a great voice for reading but the cadence of the reader is just plain ridiculous, that and his vocal inflection/emphasis being put in all the wrong places. The stories are good but damn it's so hard to listen to him because of his rhythm. It's worse to listen to that rhythm and mis-placement of emphasis than it was to listen to the guy with the lisp or the guy that whistled when he pronounced the letter "s". Prepare yourself for it because nothing will seem wrong for a while then it'll hit you like a ton of bricks.

(1 stars)

Louie

Could not listen to the end. The reader was making me sea sick with his up and down inflection and only reading 4 words at a time, seemingly putting in his own pauses after every four words. Just couldn’t take it anymore.