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The Map of the Sky

✍ Scribed by Félix J. Palma

Publisher
Atria Books
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
474 KB
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1451660332

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✦ Synopsis

The fate of the earth hangs in the balance as H.G. Wells'The War of the Worlds is transformed from the work of one writer's imagination into a terrifying reality for all mankind.****
1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he first accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the Martian invasion featured in H. G. Wells's popular novel The War of the Worlds. Meanwhile in London, Wells himself is unexpectedly made privy to certain objects, apparently of extraterrestrial origin, that were discovered decades earlier on an ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic. On that same expedition was an American crew member named Edgar Allan Poe, whose inexplicable experiences in the frozen wasteland would ultimately inspire him to create one of his most enduring works of literature.

When eerie, alien-looking cylinders begin appearing in London, Wells is certain it is all part of some elaborate hoax. But soon,...

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