The Time Machine + The War of the Worlds

Wells, H.G.; intro by Isaac Asimov

ISBN 10: 0449300293 / ISBN 13: 9780449300299

Published by Fawcett/Ballantine, New York, 1985

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Two great sci-fi classsics. 254 pp. MM paperback in glossy white illus wraps.

Seller Inventory # 41980

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Time Machine + The War of the Worlds
• Publisher: Fawcett/Ballantine, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449300293
• ISBN 13: 9780449300299
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 4th printing.
• Condition: VeryGood unmarked.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Criticism

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Synopsis

H. G. Wells

Scientific visionary. Social prophet. Master storyteller. Few novelists have captivated generations of readers like H. G. Wells. In enduring, electrifying detail, he takes us to dimensions of time and space that have haunted our dreams for centuries -- and shows us ourselves as we really are.

The time machine

In the heart of Victorian England, an inquisitve gentleman known only as the Time Traveler constructs an elaborate invention that hurtles him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. There he finds himself in the violent center of the ultimate conflict between beings of light and creatures of darkness.

The war of the worlds

Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-century London. This tale of conquest by superior beings with superadvanced technology is so nightmarishly real that an adaptation by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater sent hundreds of impressionable radio listeners into panicked flight forty years after the story's original publication.