The War of the Worlds

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2004
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'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...' So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killing machines - armed with heatrays - that are impervious to attack. Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path. Everything, except the few humans they collect in metal traps. Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology and powered flight is just a dream. Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars, and soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age.

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'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...' So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killing machines - armed with heatrays - that are impervious to attack. Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path. Everything, except the few humans they collect in metal traps. Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology and powered flight is just a dream. Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars, and soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 19 Feb 2004
ISBN 10: 0753820145
ISBN 13: 9780753820148
Book Overview: A remake of War of the Worlds, produced by Tom Cruise is scheduled to go into production late in 2003 Reissued with superb new cover design alonside 4 other Wells classics Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke, who states: 'The War of the Worlds is in some ways Wells' most remarkable tour de force and contains passages whose relevance is even greater today than when it was written. This astonishing novels contains what must be the first detailed description of mechanised warfare and its impact upon an urban socity' 'The Prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction' Brian W. Aldiss

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Phoenix have reissued six of his classic science fiction novels, and they make fascinating reading. THE HERALD

Author Bio

H G Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T H Huxley. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in biology and resumed teaching but had to retire after a kick from an ill-natured pupil afflicted his kidneys. He worked in poverty in London as a crammer while experimenting in journalism and stories. It was with The Time Machine (1895) that he had his real breakthrough.