' Cities nations civilization progress-it's all over That game's up We're beat' One of the most important & influential invasion narratives ever written The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians who land in Woking & make their way remorselessly towards the capital wreaking chaos death & destruction The novel is closely associated with anxiety about a possible invasion of Great Britain at the turn of the century & concerns about imperial expansion & its impact & it drew on the latest astronomical knowledge to imagine a desert planet Mars turning to Earth for its future The Martians are also evolutionarily superior to mankind ...

HG Wells' classic story of Martian invasion is vividly retold in this exciting addition to the Young Reading series The action-packed text is complimented by David Miles' atmospheric illustrations A nail-biting account of one man's flight across a country ravaged by alien invaders that will keep young readers hooked Illustrations Full colour throughout ...

No one would have believed that planet Earth was being watched by creatures more intelligent than humankind 64 pages 30 Illustrations color Wells H G ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture at Edinburgh Napier University In these two compelling novels HG Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was in fact a metallic cylinder landing from Mars Six million people begin to flee London in panic as tentacled invaders emerge & overpower the city With their heat-ray killing machines black gas & a taste for fresh human blood is there anything that can be done to stop the Martians? In The War in the Air naive but resourceful Bert Smallways is thrilled by speed & fascinated by the new flying machines His curiosity sweeps him away by accident into a German plan to conquer America beginning with the destruction of New York The ease of movement in aerial warfare means that nothing & nobody is safe as Total War erupts civilisation crumbles & Bert's hopes of getting back to London to marry his love seem impossibly distant ...

The first modern tale of alien invasion HG Wells's The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential science fiction novels ever published This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Patrick Parrinder with an introduction by Brian Aldiss author of Hothouse & notes by Andy Sawyer The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London At first naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag
- only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines destroy all in their path with black gas & burning rays & feast on the warm blood of trapped still-living human prey The forces of the Earth however may prove harder to beat than they at first appear The War of the Worlds has been the subject of countless adaptations including an Orson Welles radio drama which caused mass panic when it was broadcast with listeners confusing it for a news broadcast heralding alien invasion; a musical version by Jeff Wayne; & most recently Steven Spielberg's 2005 film version starring Tom Cruise This Penguin Classics edition

Includes:: a full biographical essay on Wells a further reading list & detailed notes The introduction by Brian Aldiss considers the novel's view of religion & society HG Wells (1866-1946) was a professional writer & journalist Among his most popular works are The Time Machine (1895); The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) filmed with Bela Lugosi in 1932 & again in 1996 with Marlon Brando; The Invisible Man (1897); The War of the Worlds (1898); & The First Men in the Moon (1901) which predicted the first lunar landings If you enjoyed The War of the Worlds you might like Wells's The Time Machine also available in Penguin Classics


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& No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly & closely by intelligences greater than man&s& So begins H G Wells& classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth As the Martians emerge they construct giant killing machines
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- that are impervious to attack Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path Everything except the few humans they collect in metal traps Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology & powered flight is just a dream Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars & soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age

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Tracklist Up All Night Pain Holding On Strangest Thing Knocked Down Nothing To Find Thinking Of A Place In Chains Clean Living You Don't Have To Go ...

Tracklist Under The Pressure Red Eyes Suffering An Ocean In Between The Waves Disappearing Eyes To The Wind The Haunting Idle Burning Lost In The Dream In Reverse ...

Intergenerational conflict is a perennial feature of society & capitalism One side has the youth the other side has the lion's share of the wealth & the good things wealth can bring In the last few years that friction has reached to dangerous heights Call it war & like all war it has the risk of doing severe damage In this fiery polemic the author of the best-selling The War on the Old has switched sides & now examines the conflict as it must appear to the young For the first time since the Second World War younger generations can expect less fulfilled lives than their elders They may not be their betters' but in the second decade of the twenty-first century they surely are better heeled Traditionally society's way of controlling the young has been to send them off to war or conscript them They would either die or learn duty' Now we send as many as 50 to university from which they emerge encumbered with debt As Orwell observed there is nothing like debt for extinguishing the political fire in your belly The War on the Young is lively provocative & ranges wittily & at times angrily over many casus belli from the standpoint of the nation's young people Things are not getting better This is a timely & highly readable look at a ticking generational time-bomb ...

She showed great courage & commitment in reporting from Burma & exemplified my belief that the best journalists are also the nicest'
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