The fate of the planet earth hangs in the balance as H.G. Wells’ The Battle from the Worlds is definitely transformed from the work of 1 writer’s imagination right into a terrifying reality for any mankind.

1898. NY socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only when he first allows her audacious challenge: to replicate the Martian invasion featured in H. G. Wells’s well-known novel The Battle of the Worlds. On the other hand in London, Wells himself can be unexpectedly made privy to certain items, about The Map of the Sky: A Book evidently of extraterrestrial source, that were found out decades earlier on an ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic. On that same expedition was an American team member named Edgar Allan Poe, whose inexplicable experiences in the iced wasteland would eventually inspire him to create one of his most enduring works of literature.

When eerie, alien-looking cylinders begin appearing in London, Wells is certain it is all component of some elaborate hoax. But shortly, to his great horror, he realizes that a true invasion of Earth has indeed begun. As brave rings of citizens converge on the crumbling London to defend it against utter spoil, Emma and her suitor must confront the enigma that is their love, a bright spark of hope also against the darkening light of apocalypse.

Palma dazzled readers with his instant NY Times bestseller The Map of your time. In The Map from the Sky, he embarks on a far more thrilling speculative trip, one that links the earth as well as the heavens, the familiar and the bizarre, the difficult and the unavoidable.