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UK. Okay. about War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, this classic science fiction story.

I'm reading extracts from the original book, the original text.

So there you go, this is part two, right? You know how numbers work. Now, make sure that you

have either watched part one or listened to part one before embarking on this one, all right?

Don't watch or listen to this until you've seen

part one if you're on YouTube and you're wondering where the the first part of

this series is check the links in the description that's where you'll find the link

for part one okay right so let's

carry on then what I'd like to do first is to do a recap of the story so far

okay just to bring you up to speed again. So six years prior to the

main events of the story, explosions are observed on the surface of Mars, our neighboring planet, but scientists assume that they are gas or volcanic

eruptions or something like that and that they're nothing to worry about.

Then one night, six years later, a meteor falls to earth in a green flash.

The astronomer who finds the fallen meteorite in a pit of sand, in nearby common discovers that the object is a cylinder, that it's

making strange noises and that it's even beginning to open and he assumes that there must be people inside it. A crowd gathers, including

the narrator of this story. The cylinder opens slowly and people are shocked and horrified to see the hideous and frightening creatures inside.

They seem slow and heavy as if the Earth's atmosphere makes things difficult for them.

Their appearance is a huge shock to everyone. Everyone is

immediately disgusted and horrified by them on an almost gut level of instinct, like when you

look at a poisonous insect or spider, it makes your skin

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