From a book categorized as and 574 pages follows a description and a number of hidden haikus found in the book:
He reached for a check
book in his inner pocket
and began to write.
The bunk was empty
where the blankets had been thrown
hurriedly aside.
asked the officer,
and Thorpe gave his position
as he had checked it.
I will be safe through
the day, and besides, the beast
has gutted this ship.
He tried the wireless
and got an instant response
from the destroyer.
Warn them--" His frantic,
hissing dots and dashes died
immediately.
I don't have to pull
the trigger at all--just let
go and they'll go off.
Almost on his words
the gray mist out the cabin
windows seemed to flame.
Every republic
has some fiend at work in it.
And they're organized.
There was a movement
at the edge of the jungle
and a puff of smoke.
She smiled up at him.
"But they didn't." "No.... God loves
the Irish," said Bell.
These two were humans.
At least, they were in man-form,
if not in feeling.
He cried out, stepped back,
throwing up his arms as death
flashed through his body.
His torch fell hissing
with a silent rain of blue
fire upon the rocks.
"They'd know the Martians
would be more likely to get
the signal than us.
We huddled, pulling
the shields up and over us.
Blurred darkness again.
Six of the peons
have disappeared--they didn't
run away, either.
The blind Portuguese
was armed, too, but he was not
clad in the black suit.
The shambles was not
yet over, but the four could
remain no longer.
Jerry considered
the wild figure carefully.
"He's a nut," he thought.
"And this," he added,
exhibiting another
that was colorless.
These smaller exhausts
go above and below--right
and left at the bow.
Beyond it the sun
was blaring, a hard outlined
disc in the black sky.
The ground that they crossed
so recklessly was a vast
honeycomb of caves.
"We can't go back. "Say,"
he demanded, with sudden,
dim recollection.
He came to his knees,
then up, to hold the writhing
figure at arm's length.
* * * * * Spent and exhausted,
Jerry Foster lay panting
upon the stone floor.
The only trouble
with it is that it doesn't
have enough stories.