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The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells

On the coverThe War of the Worlds (illustration), Henrique Alvim Corrêa, 1906

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells
1898 · England · Novel · ~190 pages

Without warning, cylinders fall from Mars onto the quiet English countryside, and humanity discovers it is no longer the master of the Earth. Wells’s cold, brilliant invasion that founded modern science fiction.

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Why read it

The original alien-invasion story, and still one of the most frightening, a sober, scientific nightmare that turns the imperial gaze back on itself. Short, swift, and chillingly modern.

Themes
Ambition & downfallFree will & history
Setting1890s · Southern England

Confident late-Victorian England at the height of empire, certain of its mastery, exactly the complacency Wells set out to shatter from the sky.

About the author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946), a trained biologist and tireless visionary, wrote a string of “scientific romances” that imagined time travel, invisibility, and alien war decades ahead of their time.