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Hostile invading Martians wreak havoc and destruction in England. This science-fiction classic has terrified generations of readers!

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own…" So begins The War of the Worlds, the science fiction classic that first proposed the possibility that...

When a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common, inquisitive locals are fascinated and excited. They approach with caution and a white flag only to be struck down by alien creatures with heat-rays that destroy everything in their path. It soon becomes very clear that the only options are to flee…or die. As the creatures march towards the capital, can the forces of Earth survive the onslaught?

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 publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians.