The War of the Worlds

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Summary: Reveiw By Morgan Justin Drew Brian
Review: This was a compelling story about two worlds battling for one planet. On one side we have super-smart aliens from Mars and on the other a man from England. It had periods when Wells was evading heat-rays to alerting the army about the oncoming army of one hundred foot tall machines made of aluminum. This is the epic story of how he survived that month. We think that if you are in to science fiction you will really like this book. It is a mixture of sci-fi and a survival story. If you have seen the movie Mars Attacks and you liked it, you will really like this book. This book is an extraordinarily great book.

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Summary: War
Review: I really did like this book. This book was good for several reasons. One of them was that the foreshadowing was wonderful; you don't realize that they were telling you the end of the story. This book also was well written

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Summary: War of the Worlds Review
Review: War of the worlds By: Frank, Justin, Josh, and Sam

We read the book War of the Worlds. The book is very exciting and has breath taking action. We give it 2 thumbs up and 5 stars. This is a suspensful book that we enjoyed greatly because of its contents. each character played an important role in the development of this story. This book has a lot of action and the story of the main character, H.G.Wells, was very well planned out and made this book more interesting. We recommend this book to anyone who likes action, science fiction, and great books.

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Summary: The first and only novel about alien invasion!
Review: H.G. Wells novel the War of the Worlds is a classic in it own right. In fact one can make the argument that every book that deals with aliens or alien inasion is a direct copy and the original is always better.

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Summary: the time machine
Review: I READ THIS BOOK SEVERAL TIMES AND SAW THE MOVIE ADAPTATION. ITS A MAGNIFICENT STORY. AS A SCI FAN I LIKE THE WRITINGS OF JULES VERNE AND ALL VICTORIAN WRITER OF THE EARLY SCIENCE FICTION BUT UNDOUBTLY HERBERT GEORGE WELLS AND HIS STORIES ABOUT TIME TRAVELS,MARTIAN INVADERS AND ANTIGRAVITY ENLARGE THE VISION OF THE SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE BECAUSE THE THEMES ITSELF.MANY PEOPLE DISCUSS ABOUT IS VERNE OR WELLS THE FATHER OF THAT GENRE ESPECIALLY SOME FRENCH PEOPLE WHO DISLIKE WELLS JUST BECAUSE IS PESIMISTIC JUDGING WITHOUT READING HIS FUTURISTIC NOVELS.

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Summary: War of the Worlds, an entertaining read
Review: The story was very engrossing and descriptive. I don't recommend reading the scenes of him in the house spying into the pit before sleeping; pretty creepy... His ideas on science are very fascinating, even if some are dated. Him thinking the Martians telepathic (didn't know even if the word was that old, nevermind the idea!), in 1894, surprised me. The accurate info on Mars he gives is impressive, too, even if a lot is wrong The Martians are awful, in description, but seen as an allegory for imperialists, not too far off; the tale was an allegory of imperialism, and what it does to the locals... In its scenario, the story is quite believable, and it was nice that he did meet his wife again. his observations on the Martians, life on Mars in general, on their human victims, and on the post-war results are well thought out... Again, it's a fun read, but bear in mind it's from Victorian/Edwardian England...

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Summary: The Original Sci-Fi
Review: Since Jules Verne and Orson Welles literally started sci-fi, any true sci-fi fan will read this book. The plot involves space invaders threatening humankind, which alone was revolutionary in Mr. Welles's day, but it's prophecy and its parrallels with history made it a classic. The attitudes and the fate of the Martians are incredibly similar to the attitudes and frustrations of the European nations to the territories that they controlled in the past. Besides being set from an Englander's viewpoint, Welles must have also focused on this nation because they were such a widespread world power who sapped the strengh and freedom from their own empire. In other words, it was a role reversal. Welles' explanation for the physical characteristics and selfish actions of the Martians is made in relation to prophesies for mankind's future. That was the most interesting part for me, but you'll have to read it to find out why!

Again, if you don't care for philosophy or history but like sci-fi this novel is still a fun read, so please do!

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Summary: Aliens
Review: War of the worlds was an exciting book which I enjoyed. It wasn't as good as the time machine but good none the less. It starts off with some mild atmoshere changes on Mars and then a astronomer sees a shooting star which turns out to be the first of the alien aircraft. The martians first attack England. Which doesn't make any sense. Why would aliens come all this way to attack a small island. Had they attacked a continent it would have been more plausable. Once the story gets going the aliens and humans are engaged in a full blown war. Although this story was exciting I thought that there were sections that got kind of boring. It was well written. A lot of sentences started off the words and and because. However, this is still a great sci-fi book. It reminded me a lot of the movie Independence Day. Both had aliens that came to earth to start war. The only big difference was that in War of the Worlds the humans didn't take the aliens seriously they even thought that they were humorous.

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Summary: Are We Done For!
Review: The War Of The Worlds, by H. G. Wells, is about aliens that are trying to conquer the world. Can the human race stay alive? In this action packed adventure we are trying to kill the aliens. Can we destroy the Aliens or are they going to destroy us? I recommend this book to people who like outer space and aliens. I think it is a great book.

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Summary: Attack From Mars!
Review: In the beginning, an astronomer called Ogilvy spies a shooting star. Or what he thought was a shooting star! It was actually the first Martian invasion craft! The next day, Ogilvy tells the main character, Wells, about the "shooting star" and he and the townspeople go to find the Martians. That turns out to be a big mistake! Find out how the Martians are stopped.