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The War of the Worlds

(Penguin Classics)

By H G Wells, Andy Sawyer (Editor), Brian Aldiss (Editor)

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| Paperback | 9780141441030

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Famous for the mistaken panic that ensued from Orson Welles’s 1938 radio dramatization, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science fiction works. The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell ComContinue

Famous for the mistaken panic that ensued from Orson Welles’s 1938 radio dramatization, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science fiction works. The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. Naïve 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 civilization is under threat as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroying all life in their path with black gas and burning ray. The forces of Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they appear.

-Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes
-Brian Aldiss’s introduction considers the novel’s view of religion and society

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    I preferred The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.

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    baftaboo said on Apr 19, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • The War of the Worlds

    Well, I think Wells really deserves his fame.
    The War of the Worlds is novel first published in 1898, but it could even been published after decades, losing nothing of its literary and moral strenght.
    I really like writers who use science fictions to analyse and criticise both faults and the good ... (continue)

    Well, I think Wells really deserves his fame.
    The War of the Worlds is novel first published in 1898, but it could even been published after decades, losing nothing of its literary and moral strenght.
    I really like writers who use science fictions to analyse and criticise both faults and the good action of Mankind.
    Perhaps I could not agree totally with his thought and his fears, but eventually there's no doubt he was an avant-guarde minded.

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    Calcifer1984 -G.C.- said on Feb 25, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • Something everyone knows and talks about but hasnt' actually listened.</p><p>It was one of my "must to listen" and I'm really happy of having accomplished my task. </p><p>Now I can understand as for the time it went on people believed in a real invasion.

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    Barbara ABP said on Nov 15, 2009 | Add your feedback

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