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2012 | Fiction & Poetry | Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
H.G. Wells
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| Published by | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Edition | Unknown |
| ISBN | 9780141199047 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780375759239 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780812505153 |
| Language | English |
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"There's no war between us and them, any more than there is between us and ants"
Victorian set, and told mainly through the eyes of a journalist who witnesses all the events, from the arrival of the Martians through to their attack and eventual defeat (I'll give nothing away here how, except to say that the movie Independence Day tried an updated version of the same solution), this is also - or so legend says - responsible for mass panic in the States when the radio adaptation was first broadcast.
