iety. This book shows the parallels of man's desire to destroy and be superior over those they find to be beneath them and the Alien's concept of their race being superior over humanity. For all of man's history he has been the top of the evolutionary scale. He has found himself unchallenged, which has led him to believe he is to have no concern of those beasts he sees under him and gives himself a false blanket of protection. Since the time of man's emergence from animals the only true fear a man had was that of his fellow man. So this book introduces a new topic other than mans' fighting of beasts who bear teeth and claws or other men whose weapons were fairly equal to there own, now man was fighting a greater foe. There enemy now didn't just have speed or strength like man was used to having to fight, but had an intelligence and technology that far surpassed their own. Their previous ideal of superiority and protection had been crushed by a fiction book noting the possibility of greater intelligence that surpassed their own could be out there no farther then our nearest neighboring planet.With the human race never having a competitor their ignorance to the utter possibility of life beyond their home planet grew. It was not until recently man has begun a search for life outside their own. For eons the sheer notion of life off of earth was just passed off as impossible or improbable. This is not the first time man's ignorance has stopped him from believing there was life beyond that which he could see. Hundreds of years ago the modern scientific world knew that if you sailed past the horizon you fell off the edge of the world. This mental thought of not being able to see life on the other side of the ocean or land for that matter it must not be there. This fact was touched on in the book showing how humans need to except the possibility that they aren't the only one's out there. H.G. Wells' thesis is that we need begin to prepare or...
