The Tripods Attack!

The Tripods Attack! PDF Author: John McNichol
Publisher: Imagio
ISBN: 9781933184265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description
In early twentieth-century London, orphaned sixteen-year-old Gilbert, pulled from his factory job to write a news story about meteors, finds himself facing invaders from Mars and also learning of a sinister conspiracy related to his own past.

The Tripods Attack!

The Tripods Attack! PDF Author: John McNichol
Publisher: Imagio
ISBN: 9781933184265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description
In early twentieth-century London, orphaned sixteen-year-old Gilbert, pulled from his factory job to write a news story about meteors, finds himself facing invaders from Mars and also learning of a sinister conspiracy related to his own past.

When the Tripods Came

When the Tripods Came PDF Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481409131
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Get Book Here

Book Description
Experience the beginning of the Tripods’ reign in this prequel to the classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. When it comes to alien invasions, bad things come in threes. Three landings: one in England, one in Russia, and one in the United States. Three long legs, crushing everything in their paths, with three metallic arms, snacking out to embrace—and then discard—their helpless victims. Three evil beings, called Tripods, which will change life on Earth forever.

The Pool of Fire

The Pool of Fire PDF Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 148140914X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Get Book Here

Book Description
Will must defeat the Tripods once and for all in this third book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. After being held captive in the City of Gold and Lead—the capital, where the creatures that control the mechanical, monstrous Tripods live—Will believes that he’s learned everything he needs to know to destroy them. He has discovered the source of their power, and with this new knowledge, Will and his friends plan to return to the City of Gold and Lead to take down the Masters once and for all. Although Will and his friends have planned everything down to the minute, the Masters still have surprises in store. And with the Masters’ plan to destroy Earth completely, Will may have just started the war that will end it all.

Tripods Attack, The

Tripods Attack, The PDF Author: John McNichol
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 9781622820610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description
They are coming Sixteen-year-old Gilbert Chesterton is orphaned and friendless, stuck working a menial job in grimy turn-of-the-century London. Then one night strange lights fill the sky, and a hail of giant meteors crashes into a field outside the city. The next day Gilbert is amazed to find himself hired by a newspaper and rushed out to investigate the scene. Is it a harmless natural phenomenon, or the first wave of a Martian invasion? Gilbert soon learns he’s not the only one asking that question, and he’s joined by three strangers with their own interest in the fantastic events: Herb Wells, journalist for a rival paper. Affable, streetwise, and selfconfident, Herb’s only too happy to teach young Gilbert the ways of the world. But when it comes to getting the story (and the fame) he warns it’s every man for himself. An enigmatic bearded man known only as the Doctor. He’s suave, cultured, and friendly — maybe too friendly. And he knows things about the cosmic visitors. . .things no ordinary man should know. How much he’s hiding is anybody’s guess. Father Brown, a short, mild, middle-aged priest with an extraordinary talent for solving mysteries. Gilbert doesn’t know much about Christ or the Church, but Father Brown will teach him lessons of faith, love, and courage. The companions fly frantically from danger to danger, battling street thugs from London’s underworld and mechanical creatures from another world. As Gilbert is drawn deeper into the threat of the mysterious tripods, he unveils a sinister conspiracy that may hold the key not only to the fate of mankind, but to the accident that took his parents’ life. And so with only his friends, his wits, and a tattered holy card to help him, Gilbert must race to save the world — all the while struggling to reconcile his troubling past with his budding faith in God. The Tripods Attack! is the first volume of the Young Chesterton Chronicles, a delightfully inventive fiction series for teens to adults that re-imagines the famous Catholic author as a young man living in an alternative Edwardian age of steam-driven wonders. Read an excerpt.

A Wrinkle in the Skin

A Wrinkle in the Skin PDF Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1587152355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Get Book Here

Book Description
"A massive series of powerful earthquakes on a worldwide scale reduce towns and cities to rubble and plunge the survivors into barbarism. Most of western Europe is dramatically uplifted, transforming the English Channel into a muddy desert, while elsewhere lands are plunged below sealevel and flooded. The protagonist is Matthew Cotter, a Guernsey horticulturalist who finds himself one of only a handful of survivors on the former island. Cotter decides to trek across the empty seabed to England, in the faint hope that his daughter has somehow survived. He finds the situation on the former mainland has descended to barbarism, with competing bands of scavengers preying on survivors. He and his companion, a young boy, finally make their way to the borders of Sussex, where his daughter was staying, only to discover that the land has slipped beneath the sea. Cotter, along with some survivors from the mainland, eventually returns to Guernsey."--Wikipedia.

The Tripods Attack!

The Tripods Attack! PDF Author: John McNichol
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999170601
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Get Book Here

Book Description
Sci/fi fantasy that features a fictional Gilbert Chesterton battling an alien invasion. The story includes many references to other literary and real characters as the author weaves a fantastical and imaginative story.

The City of Gold and Lead

The City of Gold and Lead PDF Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Galaxy Children's Large Print
ISBN: 9780745111001
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Get Book Here

Book Description
Three boys set out on a secret mission to penetrate the City of the Tripods and learn more about these strange beings that rule the earth. Sequel to "The White Mountains."

The Massacre of Mankind

The Massacre of Mankind PDF Author: Stephen Baxter
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 1524760129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Get Book Here

Book Description
Originally published: London: Gollancz, 2017.

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795312113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Get Book Here

Book Description
The classic postapocalyptic thriller with “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare” (The Times, London). Triffids are odd, interesting little plants that grow in everyone’s garden. Triffids are no more than mere curiosities—until an event occurs that alters human life forever. What seems to be a spectacular meteor shower turns into a bizarre, green inferno that blinds everyone and renders humankind helpless. What follows is even stranger: spores from the inferno cause the triffids to suddenly take on a life of their own. They become large, crawling vegetation, with the ability to uproot and roam about the country, attacking humans and inflicting pain and agony. William Masen somehow managed to escape being blinded in the inferno, and now after leaving the hospital, he is one of the few survivors who can see. And he may be the only one who can save his species from chaos and eventual extinction . . . With more than a million copies sold, The Day of the Triffids is a landmark of speculative fiction, and “an outstanding and entertaining novel” (Library Journal). “A thoroughly English apocalypse, it rivals H. G. Wells in conveying how the everyday invaded by the alien would feel. No wonder Stephen King admires Wyndham so much.” —Ramsey Campbell, author of The Overnight “One of my all-time favorite novels. It’s absolutely convincing, full of little telling details, and that sweet, warm sensation of horror and mystery.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Edge of Dark Water

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds PDF Author: H G Wells
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781095577714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Get Book Here

Book Description
The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, and a television series based on the story. The 1938 radio broadcast caused public outcry against the episode, as many listeners believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress, a notable example of mass hysteria.