Calico Classics Illustrated: War of the Worlds

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who live there It made them smarter more powerful and hard-hearted As they looked across space they saw our planet They saw hope for themselves in this green world Their only hope to survive was to make war and escape their own death The Martians seemed to have planned their arrival with amazing detail They carried out their plans in unity Although scientifi c men watched the red planet of Mars they did not understand the changes on the planet as the Martians got ready In 1894 a great light was seen that lit up the planet It was seen by many scientists I think that this blaze may have been the fi ring of a huge gun Around midnight on the twelfth of August a fast-moving mass of fl aming gas moved toward Earth The next day nothing of this was mentioned in the papers I would not have heard of the eruption on Mars if I had not met Ogilvy the well-known 6