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Author: Wells, H. G., Aldiss, Brian

Classic science fiction

Published on 6 December 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Penguin Clothbound Classics’ series.

Hardback | 240 pages
202 x 137 x 24 | 342g

Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth …

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common. Fascinated and exhilarated, the local people approach the mysterious object armed with nothing more than a white flag. But when gruesome alien creatures emerge armed with all-destroying heat-rays, their rashness turns rapidly to fear. As the rays blaze towards them, it soon becomes clear they have no choice but to flee – or die.

The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear …