![]() ![]() Wells has since been credited with predicting quite a number of technologies, such as laser-like rays, industrial robot-like machines, and chemical-warfare. The War of the Worlds can be read as an indictment of European colonial actions around the globe at that time - with which the injustice of the Martian invasion can be compared. The novel demonstrates Wells' typical pessimistic outlook on human nature and offers a good deal of criticism on society and people's ignorance and vanity. Overall, The War of the Worlds has become an early milestone in and inspiration for the invasion genre. The novel has served as a template for many derivative or inspired works, including comics, countless books, a TV series, several films, a bestselling musical, and the famous Orson Wells broadcast. The frightening images of people fleeing from gigantic tripod machines and the prospect of life under Martian rule have served as a bottomless well of inspiration for popular culture. In the story, an English gentleman narrates the events of a violent and fast paced Martian invasion. ![]() ![]() He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. Herbert George Wells (18661946) left school at thirteen to become a draper’s apprentice (a life he detested) he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous T. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. Download cover art Download CD case insert The War of the Worlds ![]()
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