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The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells
1897 · 138 pages

Cylinders fall on Horsell Common outside Woking, and the Martians rise out of them with heat-rays and walking machines. Wells turned the British Empire's own conquests around and pointed them at Surrey.

★ 6.6