The War of the Worlds
Contributors: Isaac Asimov (Afterword)
Series: Signet Classics
Publisher: New American Library
Published: December 2, 1986
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780451522764
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 and 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.