Professor Challenger and the Creature from the Aether

Professor George Edward Challenger invents a machine to talk to Martians. Because obviously nothing bad has ever come from his ideas before.

Naturally, GEC sends a peremptory summons to his friends to watch the demonstration. Edward Malone is hoping for a quiet afternoon, while fully expecting an explosion. Lord John Roxton will settle for a decent whisky, and Professor Summerlee is always on the lookout to argue a point. What they get instead is an aetheric rift, a threatening Martian entit...