The War of the Worlds - Softcover
The infamous, terrifying, and prophetic science fiction classic from the height of the British Invasion literature genre that set the stage for the tumultuous twentieth century, its two world wars, and unparalleled scientific progress. "The War of the Worlds" tells the story of one journalist, separated from his wife and brother during the onset of an attack by the far superior Martian invaders. Against all odds, he manages to survive the holocaust of humanity, as he and his family are reunited after a shocking victory of the Earth over Mars.
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This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
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Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler
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- PublisherProhyptikon Pub
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1926801032
- ISBN 13 9781926801032
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages179
- EditorLupton Colin J. E.
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