War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells Reviews

"No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, they observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With ...

After watching the awful Tom Cruise film last year, I promised myself I would read this. Or re-read it? I wasn’t really sure if I’d ever read it at all. So much of the story is familiar, and notorious, of course, from the panic caused by Orson Welles’ radio version in 1938. So a book, radio play and blockbuster film – it certainly seems to ...

War of the worlds........ H.G Wells created this fantastic work of genius that was responsible for the only recorded full scale alien invasion panic ever recorded, such was it's unparalleled story line and it's conversion to radio play format. Many of you will have heard or be more familiar with the modern day audio ...

Herbert George Wells is the master! When it comes to any kind of book, film or product you just can't beat the classics and Wells' 'The War of the worlds' is an A grade example. Eat your heart out Star Trek, Babylon 5 and the X Files, when the time comes for real science ...

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 ...

The War of the Worlds is obviously listed as a classic, but what does that mean? Have you ever read Robinson Crusoe? That’s a classic but could be said to be pretty poorly written. This problem is compounded with science fiction. So often science catches up with the fiction and a novel can look a little bit silly. The good news is that War ...