illustrated CALICO H G Wells’s CLASSICS The War of the Worlds Adapted by Kathryn Lay Adapted by Kathryn Lay Illustrated by Eric Scott Fisher Illustrated by Eric Scott Fisher
Book 1 The Coming of the Martians 4
1 The Eve of the War No one would have believed that in the last years of the nineteenth century Earth was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own As people busied themselves with their own lives they were studied like someone looking through a microscope at the creatures that swarm in a drop of water Without a worry people went to and fro over Earth sure of their rule The planet Mars revolves around the sun at a distance of 140 million miles No one imagined that intelligent life might be on the planet People did not understand that Mars is older than Earth and that the changes on the planet have caused a problem for those 5
