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Cover of The Germ Growers: The Strange Adventures of Robert Easterley and John Wilbraham by Robert Potter

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The Germ Growers: The Strange Adventures of Robert Easterley and John Wilbraham

by Robert Potter

A mysterious disease is spreading through remote Western Australia, and two men who set out to investigate discover something no one is prepared to believe: the plague is being cultivated, deliberately, by beings who are not human. Published in 1892 — six years before The War of the Worlds — Robert Potter's strange and almost forgotten novel is one of the earliest works of alien invasion fiction ever written, and its premise of an invisible enemy engineering infection from above feels startlingly modern. This Sequoia edition presents the complete original text in a clean, beautifully formatted reading edition, restoring a genuine landmark of early science fiction to readers who have never had the chance to find it.

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