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.
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