New York: New York Review Books, 2005. Edward Gorey (illustrations). Fifth Printing. Hardcover. When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy the civilized world, humanity’s vaunted knowledge proves to be of little use. First published in 1898, H.G. Wells’s masterpiece of speculative fiction..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2010. First U.S. Edition (stated), Second Printing. Hardcover. Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in..... More
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