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The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1898
Pages
Pages 210

Cylinders fall from Mars onto the English countryside and unleash walking machines with heat rays that flatten every army sent against them, and only the humblest thing on Earth, ordinary bacteria, finally stops what humanity could not.

intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells

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