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Overview
The narrative opens in an astronomical observatory at Ottershaw where explosions are seen on the surface of the planet Mars, creating much interest in the scientific community. Later a "meteor" lands on Horsell Common, near the unnamed narrator's home in Woking, Surrey. He is among the first to discover that the object is an artificial cylinder that opens, disgorging Martians who are "big" and "greyish" with "oily brown skin", "the size, perhaps, of a bear", each with "two large dark-coloured eyes", and lipless "V-shaped mouths" which drip saliva and are surrounded by two "Gorgon groups of tentacles".
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- ISBN-13: 9781533045720
- ISBN-10: 1533045720
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: May 2016
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.37 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.53 pounds
- Page Count: 174
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