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series4 books1996
Hard science fiction, about space exploration.
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H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse
universe65 books1898
Alien invasion.
“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue
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includes The War of the Worlds
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Alien invasion, about survival.
“Parasitical aliens attach themselves to human hosts and take over their bodies.”
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“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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