The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.
Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or 
so of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.
~~~
If you are a fan of science fiction, The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction by H G Well is one you will want on your bookshelf.
Amazon My 56
From War of the Worlds
“London in danger of suffocation! The Kingston and Richmond defences forced! Fearful massacres in the Thames Valley!”
( page 56, in hardcover,1st edition, published in 1978)
Book Beginnings
From War of the Worlds
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinised and studied perhaps almost as closely as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
GOODREADS BLURB: You can now read H.G. Wells’ most famous science fiction exactly as it appeared in illustrated popular magazines at the turn of the century.
Presented here in their entirety – with all the original illustrations by leading artists of the day – are novels such as The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, and When the Sleeper Wakes; nearly two dozen short stories, including the well known The Country of the Blind, The Empire of the Ants, The Valley of the Spiders, and The Man Who Could Work Miracles; and as a bonus, the five unusual Stories of the Stone Age (science fiction not of the future but of the past).
The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction by H.G. Wells makes it possible to recapture the authentic flavor of the these thrilling stories – some not seen even by collectors for decades.
- To see all my Giveaways, go HERE.
- To see all my reviews, go HERE.
- If you like what you see, why don’t you follow me?
Look on the right sidebar and let’ talk.- Leave your link in the comments and I will drop by to see what’s shakin’.
- Problem commenting, look for the twitter, facebook…buttons.
- Thanks for visiting fundinmental!
I am not a fan of science fiction, but I am intrigued anyway. Just the excerpts alone are fascinating.
Thanks for sharing, and here’s mine: “THE WIDOWER’S WIFE”
I have a more modern science fiction tale today though set in a similar time as Wells’ books. This week I am featuring Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco. Happy reading!
I don’t read much sci-fi, but my husband would love this. Thanks for the recommendation.
My Friday post features Still Alice.
Sounds fun to me! Happy weekend!
Cool pick!
Lauren @ Always Me
That’s wild that we both recently featured collections. This sounds great and I’m surprised I don’t have it!
Yep. I will have another collection next week.