H. G. Wells

Orson Scott Card

The innovative science-fiction story about the possibilities of intelligent life on distant planets follows an English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, as they struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894. Reprint.

The War of the Worlds

Emily McMeans

“Few people realize the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.”

I had heard about this book as the pioneer of Martian invasion fiction, so when I picked it up I expected it to be more interesting as a comparative story, however I really enjoyed it! It maintained the deep past-tense first-person, which in many older books makes me cringe, but I actually didn’t mind it here. I’m very happy that I nabbed this from the thrift.

The War of the Worlds

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