Edison’s Conquest of Mars

Description

A continuation of the story The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, dispatched by The New York Evening Journal.

Book Excerpt

was the cry. “On the off chance that essential, we can stop the earth as the Athenians fled from Athens before the propelling host of Xerxes, and like them, take shelter upon our boats – these new ships of room, with which American creativity has outfitted us.”

And afterward, similar to a glimmer, some virtuoso struck out a thought that terminated the world.