The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells’s science fiction classic—the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets—follows a man’s quest to survive after Martians land on English soil.

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 . . .

Thus begins H. G. Wells’s startling and vivid The War of the Worlds. In the early twentieth century, Mars has been all but destroyed by int...