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The War of the Worlds

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781473216853

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COMING TO BBC ONE IN AUTUMN 2019!

‘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.

And don’t miss the authorised sequel to The War of the Worlds: The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter.

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Groundbreaking ... A true classic that has pointed the way not just for science-fiction writers, but for how we as a civilisation might think of ourselves
GUARDIAN
I personally consider the greatest of English living writers [to be] H. G. Wells
Upton Sinclair
[Wells' work is] astonishingly rich in human and historical interest ... he foresaw the invention of, among other things, television, tanks, aerial warfare and the atom bomb
David Lodge