The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds is H. G. Wells's seminal 1898 invasion narrative, a chilling account of Martians descending upon late-Victorian England with technologies that render human confidence absurdly fragile. Told in a lucid, documentary style, the novel fuses scientific speculation with social allegory, transforming familiar suburban landscapes into theatres of cosmic terror. Its power lies not only in spectacle-heat-rays, tripods, and red weed-but in its critique of imperial complacency, evolut ...