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Author
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorized by aliens in tall, armored capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson tells how he was plunged into a paralyzing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
The epic saga of an earthling, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man.
"A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own 'psi' powers--among them telepathy, clairvoyance, telekenesis, and...
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"The Illustrated Man is a classic Bradbury--eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets."--Page [4] cover.
A wanderer meets a tattooed man whose images foretell...
4) Mars life
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
GN 580L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (63 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic science fiction tale in which, as life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the Earth.
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special collector's ed. ; Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Resisdents of a small town are excited when they see a flaming meteor land in the hills. Thier excitement is dampened when they discover it has passengers from Mars aboard. They soon discover that the Martians are not very friendly.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers and bodies once more...trading sleuthing for soldiering...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "The War of the Worlds", "Star Begotten" concerns another suspected attack by the Martians, this time using cosmic rays to change human DNA. Joseph Davis is a writer of popular books who becomes obsessed with the rumours of invasion, so much so that he fears his wife, child, and even him might have already been affected by the cosmic rays.
Contents include:
"The Mind of Mr. Joseph Davis Is Greatly Troubled",
"Mr. Joseph Davis Learns...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
600 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this spellbinding novel from Hugo Award-winning author Hao Jingfang. This genre-bending novel is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war...not between two factions in one nation, but...
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 240L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Join the old Martian as he swallows the moon, a comet, a rover, and more! Then he blasts off in his spaceship and he eats his way through the galaxy. But what happens when the Martian gets to the sun?