A Modern Utopia

H. G. Wells

Dec 2016 · Author's Republic · Narrated by Multiple Narrators

About this audiobook

In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government.


The premise of the novel is that there is a planet (for "No less than a planet will serve the purpose of a modern Utopia") exactly like Earth, with the same geography and biology. They have, however, "different habits, different traditions, different knowledge, different ideas, different clothing, and different appliances." The narrator's double describes the ascetic Rule by which the samurai live; this includes a ban on alcohol and drugs and a mandatory annual one-week solitary ramble in the wilderness. He also explains the social theory of Utopia, which distinguished four "main classes of mind": The Poietic, the Kinetic, the Dull, and the Base. Poietic minds are creative or inventive; kinetic minds are able but not particularly inventive; the Dull have "inadequate imagination," and the Base are mired in egotism and lack "moral sense."

Ratings and reviews

This may be the worst audiobook I have ever tried listening to. The audio sounds like it is playing from your phone speaker after you dropped it in a bucket of water. I really wanted to listen to this book but it was impossible, I had to have the volume up extremely loud to be able to try to understand the person talking. It's a good thing that I used my Google rewards balance to purchase this as I would be pissed if I spent real money on it.

魅力的でない声。