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Alla fine del 1800, da più parti del mondo giungono bollettini circa strani disturbi atmosferici e nei dintorni di Londra si rinvengono misteriosi cilindri precipitati dal cielo. La curiosità lascia il posto al terrore quando si diffonde la sconcertante rivelazione: la Terra è stata invasa dai marziani. Gli uomini, il cui intelletto è tragicamente inferiore a quello degli alieni, saranno costretti a condivi-dere il destino delle "bestie che periscono". "La guerra dei mondi", pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1897 e qui riproposto nella nuova traduzione di Vincenzo Latronico, è il romanzo più famoso di H.G. Wells. Una storia così vivida e realistica che, quando l'adattamento di Howard Koch - contenuto in questo volume - fu trasmesso dalla CBS nel 1938 per la regia e la voce del giovanissimo Orson Welles, un'ondata di panico travolse migliaia di americani convinti che un'invasione aliena fosse realmente in corso.
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Paraphrasing Whitehead , I would say that the safest general characterisation of the science-fiction tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to H. G. Wells. Indeed, The War of the Worlds is probably the most influential novel of the whole science fiction genre, as well as a significant Leggi tutto
Written in 1897, The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories about mankind and aliens. Many consider this book to be the inception of the science fiction genre. This story is relatively straightforward: An unknown man is going about his life in jolly old England when aliens invade, causing
I didn't listen to the novel-novel, but I listened to a radio adaptation performed by some fan-favorite cast members of Star Trek. <--Leonard Nimoy is amazing. It was cool as hell. And hilarious. Because it doesn't really have a Big Battle or anything that humanity has to do to overcome these invaders. Leggi tutto
Invading aliens have never been that ridiculously incompetent That´s an often seen problem in classic sci-fi, the authors didn´t really care about thinking too much about logic or readers' problems with suspension of disbelief, they just wanted to tell their story. As long as there were no other gen Leggi tutto
Read as part of the Infinite Variety Reading Challenge, based on the BBC's Big Read Poll of 2003. The War of the Worlds goes beyond the of-the-time popular military invasion fiction, which took away the standard protagonist/antagonist arc of single characters and popped whole countries or tribes in
you've heard of The Book Was Better, now get ready for The Old-Timey Radio Adaptation Was Better this was very impressive for its time, but... hard to live up to a radio show so immersive and captivatingly realistic it tricked a bunch of dweebs from the past into thinking we were being invaded by alie Leggi tutto
I swear that I read this when I was younger, but when I went to add this to Goodreads as a re-read (it was the January selection for my Completist Book Club ), I did not find it in my list. And, because this is one of those books that has a plot people tend to know because of movies and/or its genera Leggi tutto
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