The War Of The Worlds John Cassaday Not - as often imagined

Not - as often imagined - of a culture apart

rises in the ranks

split and sometimes disappeared

Shortlisted for Canada's prestigious Giller Prize

banishes the innocence of these boys and their world

The War Of The Worlds John Cassaday Not - as often imaginedThe seminal masterpiece of alien invasion, The War of the Worlds (1898) conjures a terrifying, tentacled race of Martians who devastate the Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet. After the novels hero finds himself trapped in what is left of London, despairing at the destruction of human civilization, he discovers that life on Earth is more resilient than he had imagined.