THE WAR OF THE WORLD (PB)

‘I was no longer a master, but
an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel […] the fear and empire
of man had passed away.’

A sign of life on the distant planet of Mars; an eerie alien invasion
threatening the future of humanity; a heart-wrenching battle between mankind
and extraterrestrial forces; the trauma of a bloody war on innocents; a
society plagued by anarchy; and the violent human instinct to destruct and
kill in order to survive. One of the pioneering and bestselling novels in the
genre of science fiction, H.G. Wells’s The War of the World is a
thought-provoking and self-reflexive masterpiece exploring human greed,
humanity’s urge to survive, the destructive chaos of society without
artificial hierarchies as well as the fragility of what we refer to as human
order and power. Detailing a spine-chilling war between the Martians and
Earthlings, The War of the World combines the forces of technology,
astronomy, history, politics, sociology and psychology to make readers contemplate
upon the good-bad-and-ugly complexity of human existence, and the cataclysmic
effects of what ensues when human civilization loses power to unknown forces
beyond understanding or control.