A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly
realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter
It has been fourteen years since the Martian invasion. Humanity has
moved on, always watching the skies but confident that we know how to
defeat the alien menace. The Martians are vulnerable to Earth germs. The
army is prepared. Our technology has taken great leaps forward, thanks
to machinery looted from abandoned war-machines and capsules.
So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little
reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the
narrator of Wells' book. He is sure that the first incursion was merely
a scouting mission, a precursor to the true attack--and that the
Martians have learned from their defeat, adapted their methods, and now
pose a greater threat than ever before.
He is right.
Thrust into the chaos of a new worldwide invasion, journalist Julie
Elphinstone--sister in law to Walter Jenkins--struggles to survive the
war, report on it, and plan a desperate effort that will be humanity's
last chance at survival. Because the massacre of mankind has begun.
Echoing the style and form of the original while extrapolating from its
events in ingenious, unexpected fashion again and again, The Massacre
of Mankind is a labor of love from one of the genre's most praised
talents--at once a truly fitting tribute to a classic and brainy,
page-turning fun for any science-fiction fan.
