The Massacre of Mankind (Hardcover)

from Shrike58

On the whole I founds this to be a rather clever exercise in terms of providing a plausible follow-on to H.G. Wells' original book in the light of actual history, so I have to respect it on that basis. The basic problem for me is that the novel is presented as a faux memoir by the sister-in-law o...

from Hope.Sloper

Knowing what is coming and having no ability to stop it. That is the theme of this novel. A plot that kept me on my toes as I read. You're lead through days of dread, then when the battle begins, you read all the devastation. And worse still, it happens in gripping waves. It's great though. All o...

from RandyStafford

You still ain't seeing it clearly. The Martians, you know, would say they are doing us a favor. Lifting us up, as if we made a chimp smart as a college professor. And who's to say, by their lights, they are wrong? And - pain? What of it? You clever-clogs keep telling me the Martians are above us ...

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I received this book from PenguinRandomhouse as an ARC for my honest opinion: It had been a decade or so since I read H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. I was afraid I'd need to go back to read it before Mr. Baxter's novel, so I did. You didn't really need to read WOTW, although I think that it might...

from John_Warner

Fourteen years after the initial Martian invasion was defeated with the common cold, Mars is again planning a siege of Earth. Mars and Earth are at their closest distance and astronomers have observed cannon blasts on the Martian surface indicating that the cylinders are again approaching. They l...