Katelyn Buxton’s Reviews > The War of the Worlds > Status Update

Wells: *goes to great pains to scientifically explain the heat ray*

Me: You mean the aliens came and started zapping us all like bugs under a magnifying glass?

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own...

This book’s opening lines are iconic.