Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. Continue Reading
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Gallery Post – I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians
Read MoreI and my wife stood amazed. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians‘ Heat-Ray now that the college was cleared out of the way. At that I gripped my wife’s arm, and without ceremony ran her out into the road. Then I fetched out the servant, telling her I would go upstairs myself for the box she was clamouring for.
„We can’t possibly stay here,“ I said; and as I spoke the firing reopened for a moment upon the common. „But where are we to go?“ said my wife in terror. I thought perplexed. Then I remembered her cousins at Leatherhead.