Then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud,droning noise. 'Once a leash of thin black whips, like the arms of an octopus, flashed across the sunset and was immediately withdrawn, and afterwards a thin rod rose up, joint by joint, bearing at its apex a circular disk that spun with a wobbling motion.
All LDD Files and Images Available at Brickshelf ' - The War of The Worlds, By H.G.Wells The Classic Tale of Alien Invasion, written at the turn of the last century, the enigmatic Martians bring their machines of war to earth, with devastating results, only to suffer their defeat from the most insignificant of causes. intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s.
