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Seller: World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.World of Books Inc
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When a Martian spacecraft crashes near Woking, mankind is tormented by aliens in tall, armored capsules that prowl the countryside on three legsThey came in cylinders as hated falling stars; they were the ultimate murdering machinesThey came in cylinders as detested falling stars; they were the ultimate killing machinesThey came in cylinders as dreaded falling stars; they were the ultimate killing machinesThey came in cylinders as dreaded falling stars; they were the ultimate killing.
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- Title
- War of the Worlds
- Author
- Metacom Inc
- Publisher
- Metacom
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0886765692
- ISBN 13
- 9780886765699
- Series
- Book 8 of 10: ART STORIA | Literary Classics
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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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World of Books Inc
Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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