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 the Air, naive but
resourceful Bert Smallways is thrilled by speed and 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
and nobody is safe as Total War erupts, civilisation crumbles, and
Bert's hopes of getting back to London to marry his love seem impossibly
distant.
The War of the Worlds and The War in the Air - H.G. Wells
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