War of the Worlds (War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells)

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Product:	War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Date:	08/05/01 (61 review reads)
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Advantages: Fantastic reading

Disadvantages: There are none

This is generally one of the best Sci-fi books, forget the Star Trek books, this is Wells at his best, I bought this book after hearing the musical version and i can safely say that i have never regretted buying this book, I cannot stop reading it, I will read it, read another book and then start WOTW again.

This book is an eyewitness account of the war between the Martians and England, that’s right no Americans to win the day like a certain film independence day.

The narrator goes through his feelings and sightings with some depth; he also gets accounts from other people who he sees along the way.
The storyline is that on midnight on August 12th 1894, for ten nights Mars fires a missile at earth, when the missile lands in sleepy Woking panic strikes. The story then goes on about how man tries to repel the Martian advance without victory. The Martians construct giant tripods to wreak their terror, armed with heat rays they advance upon London. Man is powerless as the steam engine is the new thing and flight is the stuff of science fiction. This makes a refreshing change from films of nowadays where nukes are the thing to stop anything.

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