The
War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
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..."
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 - Amazon.com
Paperback: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553213385; Reissue edition (November 1, 1988)
The
Invisible Man (Great Illustrated Classics)
by H. G. Wells, et al
(School & Library Binding -- January 2002)
The
Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories
by H. G. Wells, Martin Gardner (Editor)
(Paperback -- April 1997)
The
Time Machine and the Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells (Mass Market Paperback -- December 1984)
Best
Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells
by H. G. Wells
(Paperback -- June 1994)
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War of the Worlds and The Time Machine (Unabridged)
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The
Sleeper Awakes (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
by H. G. Wells, et al
(Paperback -- December 2000)
The
World Set Free
by H. G. Wells
(Hardcover -- March 2001)
The
Invisible Man [LARGE PRINT]
by H. G. Wells
(Hardcover -- December 2000)
The
Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
(Paperback -- November 2000)
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Outline of History (2 Volume Set)
by H. G. Wells
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Short History of the World
by H. G. Wells (Paperback)
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Men in the Moon (Everyman Paperback Classics)
by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke (Paperback)
Selected
Correspondence of Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells
by Bernard Shaw, J. Percy Smith (Editor) (Hardcover - May 1995)
Tono-Bungay
by H. G. Wells, Andrea Barrett (Introduction) (Paperback - March 2003)
The
Island of Doctor Moreau (Everyman Paperback Classics)
by H. G. Wells
A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor
conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly"
in ways they never were before - it's the stuff of high adventure. It's
also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan
Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells
himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise
in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe
projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time,
and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation."
This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man,
and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of
its publication in 1896. - Amazon.com
Paperback: 137 pages
Everyman Paperback Classics; ISBN: 0460872583
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