The War of the Worlds (Pocket 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:
9780141026008 (0141026006)
ASIN: 0141026006
Publish date: 2006-12-01
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Coming to a book that you've not only heard so much about before hand, but pretty much know what happens due to countless adaptations in other mediums, I was worried it would disappoint. How could it possibly live up to expectations or offer me any surprises? However, an undisputed classic of the ge...
This is one of the few genuine classics of science fiction. (Classics are at least 100 years old in my view.) The earliest novel of extra-terrestrial invasion that I am aware of, and surely the most famous ever written, it has a high reputation to live up to.1898 and missiles from Mars arrive - fr...
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