內容簡介
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of War of the Worlds includes a Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn.They came form outer space--Mars, to be exact.With deadly heat-rays and giant fighting machine they want to conquer Earth and keep humans as their slaves.Nothing seems to stop them as they spread terror and death across the planet. It is the start of the most important war in Earth's history.And Earth will never be the same.
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This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "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..."
作者簡介
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) wrote the science fiction classics The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds, and has often been heralded as a father of modern science fiction.
目錄
The Life of H.G. Wells
Introduction
Book One
The Coming of the Martians
The Eve of the War
The Falling Star
On Horsell Common
The Cylinder Opens
The Heat-Ray
The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
How I Reached Home
Friday Night
The Fighting Begins
In the Storm
At the Window
What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
How I Fell in with the Curate
In London
What Had Happened in Surrey
The Exodus From London
The "thunder Child"
Book Two
The Earth Under the Martians
Under Foot
What We Saw From the Ruined House
The Days of Imprisonment
The Death of the Curate
The Stillness
The Work of Fifteen Days
The Man On Putney Hill
Dead London
Wreckage
The Epilogue
