When four Martian spaceships land in England, masses of panicked people flee the cities, hoping to escape from the hostile alien creatures sweeping across the countryside. Armed with devastating weapons of death and destruction, the invaders are destroying all bnildings and life in their path.Who are these beings'/What do they want'/How can earthlings combat the monsters from outer space and penetrate their powerful defenses'/Find out in this specially abridged, easy-to-read edition of one of the great sciencefiction stories of all time.The War of the Worlds' has thrilled countless readers since it was first published in 1898. (The stoty even caused widespread panic among a radio audience listening to a dramatization of the tale in 1938.) Enhanced with nine original illustrations by John Green, this gripping tale by a master storyteller will thrill new generations with its exciting accounts ofinteiplanetary travel and cosmic warfare.

IN THE LAST years of the nineteenth century no one would have believed that this world was being watched by mortal creatures more intelligent than man. As we busied ourselves about our various concerns we were being watched and studied, perhaps in just the way we, with a microscope, might study the miniature life-forms in a drop of water. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger. At most, we fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps less developed than we. Yet across that gulf of space, minds that areto our minds as ours are to those of our dogs regarded this earth and slowly and surely drew their plans against US.

1. The Falling Star

2. The Cylinder Opens

3. Mechanical Giants

4. One Dead Martian

5. In London

6. The Curate

7. The War Is Over