The book, first published in 1898 is set in the future 1938 (The year/year after the supposed Magenta crash) and tells the story of an alien race coming from Mars.
In the book the aliens are described as octopus-like creatures: the “body” consisting of a disembodied head nearly 4 ft (1.22 m) across, having two eyes; a V-shaped, beak-like mouth; and two branches each of eight ‘almost whip-like’ tentacles, grouped around the mouth, referred to as the ‘hands’. They reproduce asexually, by “budding” off from a parent. Internally, the Martians consist of a brain, lungs, heart, and blood vessels; they have no organs for digestion, and therefore sustain themselves on Earth by mechanically transfusing blood via pipettes from other animals, notably humans.
There is also a second type of alien which are described as bipedal, nearly 6 ft (1.83 m) tall, and have “round, erect heads, and large eyes in flinty sockets“
Just thought it was a strange coincidence that we are still discussing these types of creatures over hundred years later.
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