When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror
seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge
three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray
and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to
terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the
beginning of Martian rule.
Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series
and sequels, The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science
fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and
is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it
was first published.