The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds, published in 1898, is H. G. Wells's seminal science fiction novel depicting the invasion of Earth by technologically superior Martians. Narrated in first person by an unnamed protagonist in Surrey, England, the story begins when a series of cylinders land from Mars, releasing towering tripod war machines that systematically devastate the British countryside with heat-rays and a suffocating black smoke. The human military is powerless against the invaders, and civilization ...