David Wheldon poet, novelist, doctor novels The Viaduct An allegory of life as travel and expectation. A man leaves his past and walks away from his city along an abandoned railway. He discovers that the track has become the home of innumerable travellers: the railway, in its disuse, has become a linear metaphor of the human world. Strangeness and unfamiliarity stretch away at either side of the familiar onward perspective. On this book’s first publication the critic of th ...

Book One: The Coming of the Martians The Eve of the War The Falling Star On Horsell Common The Cylinder Opens The Heat-Ray The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road How I Reached Home Friday Night The Fighting Begins In the Storm At the Window What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton How I Fell in with the Curate In London What Had Happened in Surrey The Exodus from London The Thunder Child Book Two: The Earth Under the Martians Under Foot What ...