As I recall, at least in the original book, the martians came out of what
could be described as artillery shells that were fired at the Earth from
Mars.  One end unscrewed to serve as the door and a heat ray was used to
"sanitize" the area before the martians came out.

Mike Wilson

Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <38F0EE22.6C08BCDD@aol.com>, "Lt. Kettch" <AKK### [at] aolcom>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, the only version I've read is a kids version, but I remember
> > that the martians kept grabbing humans and taking them the their
> > CIGAR SHAPED MOTHER SHIP (hint hint).
>
> I don't remember a mother ship...I think each pod was part of the
> landing ship itself, and each ship was about big enough to carry the
> pilots, the pod(or a few pods?) and some additional parts to make it a
> walking machine. There were a lot of them, but they landed separately in
> a fairly widespread area. No mother ship was mentioned...and I don't
> think any of them left the planet's surface again after landing, so the
> mother ship couldn't have been in orbit.
>

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