The inhabitants of Mars have attacked Earth! It’s pandemonium everywhere. Cities and countryside are razed to the ground as dreaded aliens unleash their fiery power. Nobody realises that the world, as they know it, is coming to an end when a flaming spaceship hits the earth and out come strange creatures ready to devour everything that comes in their path. Can the world be saved at all? Will these strange, tentacled aliens be stopped before all is burnt and lost forever? Will the earth bloom again? Find out as you read the thrilling story of the time when two worlds fought the most destructive war ever.
This is an unabridged version of one of the first fictional accounts of extraterrestrial invasion. H. G. Wells's military science fiction novel was first published in book form in 1898, and is considered a classic of English literature.
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It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, and a television series based on the story.
Orson Welles famously adapted the novel for radio in 1938, presenting the drama as a series of simulated news bulletins—convincingly enough to cause panic among a large portion of the national audience.
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from ...
For more than 100 years this compelling tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power...
... Marvin the Martian appear in Looney Tunes cartoons with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck ; Gazoo annoyed us in the 1960s as Fred Flinstone's alien sidekick ; and Kang and Kodos entertain us with their return to The Simpsons every Halloween ...
He is right. Thrust into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist - sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins - must survive, escape and report on the war. The Massacre of Mankind has begun"--
Alien invaders believed to be long-dead are revived by a toxic chemical spill and resume their mission--to prepare the Earth for colonization