-- Book review edited by Mr S. --
Author: Hebert George Wells
H.G. Wells was born in London in 1866 but did not appear destined for fame as a writer. His father, a poor shopkeeper, could not afford a proper education for his son, so the boy was apprenticed to a cloth maker, and later to a chemist.
But Wells was not content and by studying hard, he won a scholarship to The Royal College of Science. His training as a scientist and his love of writing allowed him to produce The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon, and The War of the Worlds.
The inspiration for The War of the Worlds came about inadvertently. Wells and his brother Frank were discussing the invasion of the Australian island of Tasmania in the early 1800s by European settlers, who hunted down and killed most of the primitive people who lived there.
Wells was inspired by that conversation and went on to write the Martian invasion The War of The Worlds.
The story starts with an article in the London Telegraph which reported flaming gas bursts from Mars. Ogilvy, a friend of Wells and well-known astronomer, was curious about these strange happenings. The duo investigated this phenomenon and doubted the existence of life on Mars. However, Earth was being watched closely by beings with greater intelligence and an arsenal of frightening weapons. These beings had plans to leave their dying planet and take over a green, fertile planet crowded with “inferior animals:” earth and mankind’s existence hung in the balance.
Soon a weird-looking cylinder landed on Earth and they attacked. Creatures with tentacles crawled out of the cylinder. The Martians were intent on taking over earth and exterminating its inhabitants.
Could Earth be saved? Well, read this page-turner to find out more!
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