Book · 1897 · Fiction

The War of the Worlds

Name: The War of the Worlds
Author: H.G. Wells

Brand: Tribeca Books · 138 pages

★ 6.6 editorial score

Cylinders fall on Horsell Common outside Woking, and the Martians rise out of them with heat-rays and walking machines. Wells turned the British Empire's own conquests around and pointed them at Surrey.

Genre

Science fiction Invasion literature

Medium

Novel

Subject

Invasion Evolution Science

Setting

England (United Kingdom)

Time

1897Depicts Victorian Era (Britain)Depicts 1890s

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