War Of The Worlds by H. G. Wells

Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (December 28, 2004) | 250 pages | ISBN: 978-0786182398 | txt | 135 kb

Book Description

Soon to be a major motion picture. "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…." So begins The War of the Worlds, the science-fiction classic that first proposed the possibility that intelligent life exists on other planets.

This spellbinding tale describes the Martian invasion of earth. Following the landing in England of ten huge and indefatigable creatures, complete chaos erupts. Using their fiery heat rays and monstrous strength, the heartless aliens threaten the future existence of all life on earth.

This classic chiller, when adapted for radio in 1938 by Orson Welles, was realistic enough to cause widespread panic throughout the United States.

About the Author

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS (1866-1946), born in Bromley, Kent, England, was apprenticed to a drygoodsman and a druggist before he made his way to the Royal College of Science where he studied biology. The first great writer of science fiction, he was also a prophet, journalist, and spokesman for progress. Aerial w

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