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The War of the Worlds: With an Introduction by Orson Scott Card
(Paperback, 1996)
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Author: H. G. Wells
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth., The bo...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0451522761
ISBN-13: 9780451522764
Feb 1996
Publisher: Signet Classic
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth., The book was written in two parts: "The Coming of the Martians", which details the Martians' landing and conquering; and "The Earth Under the Martians", which is a post-apocalyptic account of the Martians' reign and their subsequent vanquishing by microbes which they are unprepared for. Mars, and the possibility of life on it, had apparently intrigued Wells for some time. In an interesting aside, as Bernard Bergonzi notes in his "Early H. G. Wells", the author also had some fun writing scenes in which the aliens destroyed characters modeled on his neighbors. Adapted by Orson Welles and Howard Koch for the notorious 1938 Halloween radio broadcast, this story sent hundreds of frenzied families onto the highways in an attempt to escape the alien threat.
| Size | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "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 and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."
Industry Reviews
"Mr. Wells's dramatic power is of the strongest, and though 'War of the Worlds' deals with death, desolation and ruin, he has known how to manage a terrible topic in a clever and ingenuous way. What are we after all in the great cosmogony, but ants?...Take any convulsion of nature, as an earthquake, and how weak and impotent man is. Perhaps that is the lesson Mr. Wells may wish to impart. We are, after all, but the weakling lords of this world."
Gussow
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