Excerpt from the audio:
“No one would have believed in the last years of the the reign of Schmedlap IV that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than Martians’ and yet as mortal as his own; that as Martians busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a Martian with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
With infinite complacency Martians went to and fro over this red globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
At most, Martians fancied there might be other beings upon Earth, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this Mars with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
They are afraid of US. Who knew, right?
Perfect!
Wow! I just switched to KGRA and they’re playing the intro theme to Into The Fray, an audio of those very lines as written by H. G. Wells...