War of the Worlds (Wells - Dover ed.)

Author: H. G. Wells

ISBN: 9780486295060

Binding: paperback

Section: Science Fiction/Fantasy

First published in 1898, The War of the Worlds terrified readers of the Victorian era with its account of an invasion of hostile creatures from Mars who moved across the English landscape in bizarre metal transports, using deadly heat rays to destroy buildings and annihilate all life in their path. Its power to stir the imagination was made abundantly clear when Orson Welles adapted the story for a radio drama on Halloween night in 1938 and created a national panic. Despite readers' increasing sophistication about space travel and interplanetary invaders, The War of the Worlds remains a riveting reading experience.