At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. Nimoy's presentation is low-key and chilling. A classic for every audio collection.
Many sentences begin with and and but, and the dramatic pencil drawings are mediocre.
Inc. All rights reserved. The daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil, with its themes of interplanetary imperialism, technological holocaust and chaos, is central to the career of H.G. Wells, who died at the dawn of the atomic age. Visionary, shocking and chilling, The War Of The Worlds has lost none of its impact since its first publication in 1898.