War of the Worlds
Publisher: Andor Pub Co; Andor Classics
Published: June 1976
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780893190088
Subjects: Science Fiction
First sentence: 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 yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.