War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (eBook)

H. G. Wells (Autor)

Kevin J. Anderson (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021 | 1. Auflage
340 Seiten
Distributed via Smashwords (Verlag)
978-1-68057-170-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Martian Invasion! Accounts of the War of the Worlds as told from celebrity eyewitnesses all around the globe!

Jules Verne reports on the Martian attacks on Paris

Teddy Roosevelt, big game hunter, goes after the most dangerous game...from another world.

Mark Twain recounts the Martians on the Mississippi.

Jack London fights the Martians in the Yukon.

Albert Einstein pits his great mind against the Martian overlords.

And fourteen other imaginary reports from the front lines of the War of the Worlds, including H.P. Lovecraft, Winston Churchill, Pablo Picasso, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and others-as written by some of the greatest names in modern science fiction.

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From the father of science fiction, the nineteenth-century British classic novel of alien invasion, along with two sequels. Together in one volume for the first time H. G. Wells's seminal science fiction classic The War of the Worlds, with the contemporaneous, unauthorized, but extremely popular sequel Edison''s Conquest of Mars, as well as Wells's own, much later conceptual sequel, Star Begotten. How often do you watch the sky at night? Ever see bright streaks of light exploding from the red planet? Get ready for adventurous reading as you embark on a journey to find out just how these alien invasions play out!In The War of the Worlds, how will woefully unprepared Earthlings respond to towering three-legged "e;fighting machines"e; armed with heat-rays and chemical weapons that far exceed the capabilities of the nineteenth-century English military?In Edison's Conquest of Mars, Earth's leaders fear that the Martians will return to invade once more. US President William McKinley, Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Emperor Mutsuhito unite to plan an attack on Mars. Led by American inventor Thomas Edison, a group of scientists develop new technologies based on what earlier Martian visitors left behind. They design and build a fleet of space ships for the pre-emptive move. What will happen when the two opposing forces meet?The protagonist of Star Begotten, Joseph Davis, is an author of popular histories, who becomes suspicious that he and his family have been exposed to a Martian influence of another sort and are in the process of being changed. What might that influence be?Three classics of Martian invasion in one volume.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• ISBN-10: 1-68057-170-2 / 1680571702
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68057-170-7 / 9781680571707