With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century
Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University.In these two compelling
novels H.G. 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 and
overpower the city. With their heat-ray, killing machines, black gas, and a
taste for fresh human blood, is there anything that can be done to stop the
Martians?
In The War in