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The War of the Worlds

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Sebastian Blackwood
Language
English
Length
5 hours 37 minutes
ISBN
9781787369801
Published
23 April 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Martian invasion
  • alien technology
  • science fiction
  • Victorian England
  • survival
  • humanity's resilience
  • extraterrestrial life
  • social commentary
  • interplanetary conflict
  • apocalypse

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Martian cylinders open on Earth and war machines drive society into panic, told through an unnamed narrator and his brother. Survival against invaders who seem unbeatable until nature itself finally intervenes. Wells’s classic of catastrophe and stubborn hope. Spoken as when the sky opens and ordinary city streets become the front line.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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