During his trek, he observes the horrific changes to his world, following the full-on Martian invasion. In the wake of the initial attack and panic, the astronomer is separated from his family, and spends much of the book trying to reunite with them. Leathery, bear-sized, oily-skinned Martian creatures, weakened by our heavier gravity, slowly emerge from the cylinder but soon retreat back into their newly-assembled tripodal war machines for ground transport. The cylinder contains an advanced scout for an invasion force from the planet Mars.īefore long, heat rays emanate from a mirror atop the cylinder, devastating the crowds gathered nearby. Soon, a giant meteorite containing a cylinder lands in the rural countryside of Woking, Surrey. The book is told in an unnamed first person account (not too unlike Wells’ “The Time Machine”) by an astronomer in Victorian England who is invited to the local observatory to observe curious explosions on the surface of Mars. “Independence Day” 1996’s quasi-adaptation of H.G. the Flying Saucers,” or the 1996 quasi-remake “Independence Day ” not to mention its own various adaptations (the 19 WOTW movies, as well as a 2-season late 1980s television series). It was over 120 years ago that Herbert George Wells first published the seminal alien invasion story, “The War of the Worlds.” Like so many of Wells’ works (“The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” “The Shape of Things To Come”) WOTW became a template for many such alien invasion stories to come, such as 1956’s “Earth vs.
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