“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own . . .
” And so H. G. Wells opened his thrilling The War of the Worlds
in 1897. Since then millions of readers have shivered and shrieked
at his depiction of a Martian invasion of Earth. The tale has
become part of our cultural memory, but Wells didn’t tell the
whole story. He never gave us the Martian side of the conflict.
Now, Joseph Dougherty, the Emmy-winning writer, reports on the
invasion of Earth from an up-close-and-personal Martian point of
view. Dougherty views Wells’s epic battles from an all new,
painfully modern perspective. Our narrator is Vvv, a reluctant
conscript on board The First Cylinder to reach Earth in the
invasion. Vvv is the Martian incarnation of all reluctant warriors,
from Yossarian in Catch-22 to Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five.
War is hell . . . for aliens and humans alike. Sardonic and
heartrending, tragic and comic, The First Cylinder is a breakout
science fiction novel in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Ray
Bradbury.
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