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...
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...
'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' Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments,...
'No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greate...
