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THE


MARTIAN WAR
A THRILLING EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
OF THE RECENT ALIEN INVASION AS
REPORTED BY MR. H. G. WELLS




GABRIEL MESTA




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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mesta, Gabriel.
The martian war : a thrilling eyewitness account of the recent alien invasion as reported by Mr. H. G.
Wells / Gabriel Mesta.тАФ1st Pocket Books hardcover ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7434-4639-9 (hardcover) 1. Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946тАФFiction. 2. Human-alien
encountersтАФFiction. 3. Space warfareтАФFiction. 4. Mars (Planet)тАФFiction. 5. NovelistsтАФFiction.
I. Title. PS3613.E876M37 2005 813'.6тАФdc22
2004042399

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Portions of the first two chapters have been previously published as "Scientific Romance" by Kevin J. Anderson in
The UFO Files, edited by Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1998; and "Canals in the Sand" by Kevin J.
Anderson in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, edited by Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam, 1996.
 To the imagination, genius, and sheer
enthusiasm of MR. HARLAN ELLISON,
who has raised the bar for all of us