The War of the Worlds [Penguin Readers]

A bit outdated, a lot of passages are quite surprising to read nowadays. This book is now more a funny and entertaining read than a great cutting-edge science fiction.

True, the multiple carnages and massacres told again and again chapter after chapter are long, repetitive and, finally quite boring. Well, in any case it's easy to laugh at such apocalyptic little book, where our own solar system contains lurking dangers who are a real threat to the human race. Having said that, at the time of the Voyager probes and the SETI program are we sure that, if aliens are out there they will be friendly to us? More, Wells is doing with the knowledge of his time and, considering, from the idea of life on Mars to the evolution of the said Martians show more and, even their final demise (a great idea) it's quite fascinating.

'Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then -fire, earthquake, death! As if it were Sodom and Gomorrah! All our work undone, all the work -What are these Martians?'
'What are we?' I answered, clearing my throat. show less

A metal object falls from the sky over the south of England, and strange creatures come out. But they are not human - they are fighting machines from Mars. When another object falls, and then another, people start to worry. Are the Martians trying to take over the Earth?