The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics)
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders...
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The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays, and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141441030 (0141441038)
ASIN: 0141441038
Publish date: 2005-05-04
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Biographical NoteIntroductionFurther ReadingNote on the Text--The War of the WorldsAppendix: Note on Places in the NovelNotes
First half was enjoyable, however the second half was laborious, pompous and not at all enjoyable.
I had to read this book for a science fiction module at university and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I spent most of the day curled up in bed (it was cold), reading it. I've heard of the plot before and alien invasion is not normally a plot that excites me in a book.However, fro...
I know this is a classics, but honestly I wasn't too impressed by it. I think it was the writing style more than anything else, as the plot was interesting enough - or perhaps it's just a book that doesn't do well as an audiobook, as it's rather slow-moving. I felt there was too little cause for adr...
originally read in jan 1978
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