The war of the worlds

ISBN-13: 9781539996842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 226 str.

H. G. Wells; G-Ph Ballin

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War of the Worlds (The War of the Worlds) is a science fiction novel by HG Wells, published in 1898. This is one of the first works that confronts mankind with an alien race hostile1, in addition to being a reflection of the anguish of the Victorian era and imperialism. War of the Worlds was adapted into radio dramas (including a version of Orson Welles who made headlines in 1938), role play, comic and two feature films (the first was directed by Byron Haskin in 1953 and second by Steven Spielberg in 2005). (...) Beyond the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds that ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast, quiet and ruthless, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly stood surely their plans for the conquest of our world (...) " 1894. Astronomers are strange activities witnesses to the surface of Mars, like lightning or glowing gas explosions. The amazing phenomenon is repeated for the next ten nights and then stops. Meteors from Mars soon heading towards Earth. The first crash in England, Surrey: it is an object having the shape of a cylinder of twenty-five thirty meters. The curious gather around the crater formed by the fall of the projectile, but they are soon killed by a "burning ray" projected in a gigantic machine with three huge feet out of the cylinder. Thereafter, the other cylinders sent from Mars crush and release other mechanical devices controlled by tentacular creatures installed inside. These tripods, armed with their scorching ray and a toxic gas called "black smoke" (black smoke), head to London disintegrating everything in their path. The British army replica. But soon the fight to the advantage of the invaders. Populations fleeing terrified that implacable enemy that pumps blood unfortunate that capture and spreads across a mysterious red grass that smothers vegetation. Thus begins the narrator, a leak in a ravaged world where it no longer meets that isolated people on the edge of madness. Then he realizes that Martians suddenly ceased operations: Earthlings microbes against which they had no immunity, have them exterminated. Herbert George Wells, better known as the signature HG Wells, born September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent (United Kingdom) and died August 13, 1946 in London, is a British writer best known today for his science fiction -fiction. However, he was also the author of numerous social satire novels, works of foresight, of political and social considerations as well as popular works affecting both the biology, history as social issues. He is considered the father of modern science fiction.