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01357aam a2200205 a 4500 001 6A0865AC465D11EF8FA8D3892BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240720010036 008 240718n2020 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1789503957 020 $a 9781789503951 040 $d SILO 245 14 $a The War of the Worlds / $c Wells, H.G. 260 $a United Kingdom : $b Sirius, $c 2020. 300 $a 190p. 100 $a H.G. Wells, $d 1898. 520 $a The War of the Worlds chronicles the events of a Martian invasion as experienced by an unidentified male narrator and his brother. The story begins a few years before the invasion. During the astronomical opposition of 1894, when Mars is closer to Earth than usual, several observatories spot flashes of light on the surface of Mars. The narrator witnesses one of these flashes through a telescope at an observatory in Ottershaw, Surrey, England. He immediately alerts his companion, Ogilvy, âthe well-known astronomer.â Ogilvy quickly dismisses the idea that the flashes are an indication of life on Mars. He assures the narrator that â[t]he chances against anything manlike on Mars are a million to one.â The flashes continue unexplained for several nights. 941 $a 1 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20240720010839.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6A0865AC465D11EF8FA8D3892BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search