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Book Review of The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds
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From the back cover: "Across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts, intellects vast and unsympathetic regard Earth with envious eyes, and draw their plans against us..." The massacre of planet Earth

The horror starts on a quiet summer night, with a falling star...and then hundreds: ships filled with repulsive, super-intelligent monsters and war machines deadly beyond even the dreams of military science. The invaders don't want to trade, or talk, or enlighten: they only want to trample humanity beneath them, and take our world for their own. And we can't stop them.

Some call it the War of the Worlds. But it's not a war. It's a mass murder...