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H.G. Wells's sciencefiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities ofintelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vividnearly after a century after its appearance, and a half-centuryafter Orson Wells's infamous 1938 radio adaptation. The daringportrayal of aliens landing on English soil, with its themes ofinterplanetary imperialism, technological holocaust and chaos, iscentral to the career of H.G. Wells, who died at the dawn of theatomic age. The survival of mankind in the face of "vast and cooland unsympathetic" scientific powers spinning out of control was acrucial theme throughout his work. Visionary, shocking andchilling, The War Of The Worlds has lost none of its impact sinceits first publication in 1898.
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H.G. Wells's sciencefiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities ofintelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vividnearly after a century after its appearance, and a half-centuryafter Orson Wells's infamous 1938 radio adaptation. The daringportrayal of aliens landing on English soil, with its themes ofinterplanetary imperialism, technological holocaust and chaos, iscentral to the career of H.G. Wells, who died at the dawn of theatomic age. The survival of mankind in the face of "vast and cooland unsympathetic" scientific powers spinning out of control was acrucial theme throughout his work. Visionary, shocking andchilling, The War Of The Worlds has lost none of its impact sinceits first publication in 1898.
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