The Eve of the War
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No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised. As someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water, few men even consider the possibility of life on other planets. And yet across the Gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes. And slowly and surely they drew their plans against us. At midnight on the 12th of August, a huge mass of luminous green gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth across 200 million miles. A void, invisibly hurtling towards us came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to earth. As I watched, there was another jet of gas. It was another missile starting on its way. And that's how it was for the next 10 nights. A flare spurting out from Mars, bright green, drawing a green mist behind it, a beautiful but to somehow disturbing sight over the The astronomer assured me we were in no danger. He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote forbidding planet