War of the worlds (強戰世界)

Title : War of the worlds (強戰世界)

Publ Info : Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Pictures ; Hong Kong : Distributed by Deltamac (Hong Kong), c2005

Call No. : AVI 791.4372 W195W

Summary :
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object—only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge.
Soon, the whole human civilization is under threat, as powerful Martians move across the land in massive killing machines, armed with black gas and burning rays. The aliens are determined to win the Earth for themselves. They have traveled a long way, from a dying world. They are desperate, they are cruel. And most of all, they are hungry for blood.

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (星際快閃黨)

Title : The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (星際快閃黨)

Publ Info : Hong Kong : Distributed by Intercontinental Video Ltd., [2006]

Call No. : AVI 791.4372 H636

Summary :
One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way fro a new hyperspace bypass.
For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the galaxy is a very strange and startling place.

The war of the worlds

Author : H. G. Wells

Title : The war of the worlds

Publ Info : London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2006

Call No. : 823.912 W462WO 2006

Summary :

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object—only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge.
Soon, the whole human civilization is under threat, as powerful Martians move across the land in massive killing machines, armed with black gas and burning rays. The aliens are determined to win the Earth for themselves. They have traveled a long way, from a dying world. They are desperate, they are cruel. And most of all, they are hungry for blood.

The time machine

Author : H. G. Wells

Title : The time machine

Publ Info : London : Penguin, 2007

Call No. : 823.912 W462TM 2007

Summary :

Travel to a world beyond worlds …
Dabbling in science and keen to prove his theories to his skeptical friends, a Time Traveller sets off his homemade machine to investigate its powers. Stopping at the year 802,701 AD, he finds London has been changed beyond reckoning. The only creatures living in the ruins are a gentle race known as the Eloi.
But beneath the surface of peace and tranquility lies a darker group—the brutal and cannibalistic Morlocks. Underground, the vicious Morlocks tend to their own machines and hunt the Eloi, who offer no resistance to the attacks.
What is the secret of these two groups? What can they teach the Time Traveller? And will he learn their lesson before it is too late?

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

Author : Douglas Adams

Title : The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

Publ Info : London : Picador, 2002

Call No. : 823.914 Ad17H 2002

Summary :

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.
For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the galaxy is a very strange and startling place.