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    The War of the Worlds

    Written by H G Wells

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    A shooting star seen in the skies over Victorian England heralds an alien invasion. The Martians, in need of resources, have been shot from Mars via a huge space gun and have landed in Southern England, where they quickly overwhelm its inhabitants. As the battle for Earth begins, our unnamed narrator struggles to return to his wife amidst the fighting and devastation. One of the most widely-read and influential science-fiction novels, The War of the Worlds touches on interplanetary travel, evolutionary theory, British imperialism, and the fears and prejudices of Victorian times. First serialized in 1897, it has been adapted many times, most famously by Orson Welles and company in the form of a prank radio news alert in 1938 that caused panic among listeners.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateFeb 13, 2019
    ISBN9781974925742
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    H G Wells

    H. G. Wells (1866-1946) is best remembered for his science fiction novels, which are considered classics of the genre, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was born in Bromley, Kent, and worked as a teacher, before studying biology under Thomas Huxley in London.

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    • 4/5
      There isn't much use for the Humilation game in my regard, there are always blind spots and blank areas. I read this one today over three hours, pausing to admire its technique. It is a prescient novel, much as critical opinion concurs, one I find so haunting in its reach.
    • 4/5
      Published in 1898, three years after his famed debut The Time Machine, Wells presents a first-person account of a Martian invasion. By today's standards, the narrative feels detached. But the characterisation and concept shine. You meet a brave woman, an overwhelmed curate, a weak soldier. These very human interactions are just as welcome as descriptions of aliens and a London falling to pieces. A strong and thoughtful ending. Recommended.
    • 2/5
      “the Martians are coming!”And they have Heat-Rays and Black Smoke to kick some English tushies! And they do!But as exciting as this all sounds, this book is rather boring. It's mostly about running and hiding and being frightened out of one's mind. No "war" to speak of. But lots of histrionics. Lots. I really wish I could have smacked the narrator's face. Lots. Also, the localities are very casually mentioned, and as I'm not familiar with those places, it made no impact on me whatsoever. In fact, the listing of places became a big part of my boredom. Where is he running? Then where? Ah, who gives a damn. In fact, I rooted for the Martians! Dang.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this as an audiobook. I saw the Tom Cruise movie and so I was comparing this to the movie. I don't think I would have wanted aliens invading Earth back in the time when there was horse and buggy and no cell phones and the weaponry wasn't as sophisticated as it is now. very entertaining for a long car ride.
    • 5/5
      I liked this quite a bit. Familiar with the story, of course, thanks to various other dramatizations, so it was nice to finally read this. The second half is quite eerie.
    • 4/5
      After seeing various film versions, it was a pleasure to read the original, which is actually quite exciting and must have been tremendously so when it was first published. It reminded me of John Wyndham, so maybe it's the British approach, but that made it even more enjoyable. I especially appreciated Wells' philosophizing over the position the invasion put the humans in: that of the rats or ants to us.
    • 4/5
      Wells can really write. Some of the passages were awesome. Even though I am not an expert on London geography, I was able to get the feeling the book tried to convey. Actually, I believe that the use of so many know places (for Londoners) gives the book more credibility, together with the scientific details. Despair and the feeling of lostness is portrayed marvelously.
    • 3/5
      Title: War of the WorldsAuthor: H.G. WellsGenre: Horror, Science Fiction# of pages:Start date:End date:Borrowed/bought: boughtMy rating of the book, F- worst to A best: CDescription of the book: Aliens land on earth in big cylinders and start attacking humans.Review: This was an enjoyable read for Halloween- I finished it Halloween night and remembered I haven't posted a review yet. Definitely a fun classic.. Not a whole lot to it but I like the discussion about humanity. The first page reminded me of what Stephen Hawking was saying about aliens visiting us being like Europeans discovering the new world. Scary stuff and this book definitely still has some relevance to the discussion about extra terrestrial life.
    • 4/5
      This is a good old fashioned yarn. I read the book through in one or two sittings. HG created a sense of menace and despair through the book, which I loved. His descriptions were evocative of the times, and I could almost visualize the destruction taking place, as the book weaved along. The writing is, for our times, old fashioned, yet timeless. The almost forgotten craft of writing is something that was displayed through the book. I lost the part where the Martians were 'destroyed'. It would have been really nice to have had a nice description of this, but you can't have everything in life!If you want a good book to read by the fireside, then this is one I can recommend.
    • 3/5
      Never before in the history of the world had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together. The legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current. And this was no disciplined march; it was a stampede--a stampede gigantic and terrible--without order and without a goal, six million people, unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong. It was the beginning of the rout of civilisation, of the massacre of mankind. Pg. 82The War of the Worlds is rather a misnomer as it didn't play out as war. Not even close. It was an one sided annihilation and unfortunately, man was on the short end of the stick in this battle. Aliens from Mars have arrived and their purpose seems to be the complete destruction of London and the surrounding countryside. All efforts to counterattack have proven futile and men are forced to hide and run like rats, like vermins, the lowliest of the lows. Salvation seems a miracle while the extinction of the human race, inevitable. My first taste of Wells was rather hit and miss. Miss in that there were way too many references to places that I've never heard of before. They are most likely real places, but I wouldn't know either way. It was like a study of all the smallest and tiniest locales surrounding London and I was in desperate need of a map. The hit was the actual aliens themselves. Perhaps if there was more of a focus on the aliens, their thoughts, their motives, instead of the all places they destroyed, it would have made for a more interesting read. Either way, I haven't given up on Mr Wells and hopefully his next book will leave a more lasting impression.
    • 5/5
      This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat.
    • 2/5
      A great idea but very boring written. Endless emotinless descriptions about horrible things. People have no names, that makes it more bland. Got a little better at the end, but it was hard to finish the book.
    • 4/5
      This 100+-year-old piece of sci-fi holds up amazingly well. Wells is an efficient, thoroughly readable storyteller, and this vivid imaging of a Martian attack is nothing short of fascinating.
    • 3/5
      One of the very earliest sci-fi stories, with the Martian invaders. Seems thin now - the famous radio play must have been well scripted to generate the realism to generate the mass panic.Read July 2006
    • 4/5
      Just re-read this after many years, this time as a free download on my Kindle. I had forgotten many of the details of the story, and was gripped by it. The Martian fighting machines that Wells describes seem Heath-Robinson-clunky to a modern reader used to digital and electronic technology, but would have appeared state-of-the-art in the early twentieth century, still in the tail end of the Industrial Revolution. More universal is the sense of fear and foreboding that Wells conveys so brilliantly, especially in Part Two when we see our hero trapped in a house half-flattened by one of the Martian landings, trying to keep a crazed fellow-prisoner quiet as they hide from the enemy. Some typical Wells philosophising, too, on the nature of man and society. Certainly worth returning to.
    • 5/5
      Wow! I read this over 20 years ago and only remembered that it was pretty good. This time around, I couldn't believe how much I enjoyed it! Intense stuff! Those Martians are seriously Bad News.The story is probably more or less familiar to almost everyone, so I won't go over it again in too much detail. But Martians have invaded England, and they are not coming as friendly tourists. They are here to destroy. It takes them a while to get moving, but once they do, their Death Ray takes out everyone in sight. And then they get even more clever.There were two parts that really struck me as just amazing writing. The first was the scene in London when the entire population of the city is trying to get out. It's nothing but mass panic and complete chaos. Wells is extremely believable. The part about the man trying to save his gold coins while an enraged cabdriver runs him down was so vivid that it will stay with me for a long, long time.The other part I loved was when the narrator and the artilleryman were making plans for life under the Martians. The artilleryman is convinced they will all be rounded up and used as cattle, unless they are prepared to fight. As he was talking, I could imagine exactly what he meant, how everything would change forever.It's always good when a classic actually lives up to its reputation, and for me, this was definitely one of those times. Now I want to read The Time Machine again and see if that one is just as good. 5 stars.
    • 4/5

      While I've listened to the radio play, and watched the old black and white movie based on Mr. Wells' novel, this is the first time I've actually read it. I very much enjoyed it.

      Victorian novels in general seem to strive for verisimilitude. This one does as well, and succeeds. It's very believable.

      The movie and, especially, the radio plays also had a strong quality of verisimilitude. They're both set in the US, with slightly different specific actions, but the changes are there to suit the different mediums.

      Like [book:Time Machine], War of the Worlds touches on some very large issues of both the nature of humanity, and where humanity could go. Much to my surprise, neither novel is too heavy handed about it. It really is a natural out-welling of the story. I can't tell if the philosophy or the plot came first.

      Now I'm craving both the movie and the radio play :)
    • 4/5
      Perhaps one of the most interesting things about this book was the fact that Wells did not describe what an alien looked like until page 99.

      I was attracted to this book because I knew what a stir Orson Well's adaptation made: this book is well known, but I'd never read it. I found myself almost all the way through and realizing I didn't know how it ended. Do the humans live, or do Martians win?

      It took me longer than I would have liked to read it, but once I devoted myself to it, it didn't take long. This was much better than The Island of Dr. Moreau , and I am interested in reading more [author: H. G. Wells].

      I'm ready to hear/read the Orson Wells version now...then maybe watch the movie.
    • 2/5
      This book is quite dated, and because of this I had a hard time sticking with it. H.G. Wells was a true visionary, but given more modern times where much of the science behind this book has been expanded, it appears more ridiculous with age. Concept is great, but his style of writing has lost its touch over time.
    • 5/5
      Pods hit Earth from Mars. Aliens begin there siege on mankind , using super advanced weaponry and battle techniques, it seems improbable humans will survive. Follow this first person narrative of a professor who witnesses the war of the worlds.Great classic story. H. G. Wells was a brilliant man and very creative writer. If you put this book into the context of the time it was written it's amazing how accurate he was with his predictions of future technologies. Written in 1897 he was allready imagining flame-throwers, space pods, bio-warfare and robots. Amazing!
    • 5/5
      I was sure I’d read The War of the Worlds, because it’s one of those really famous and perpetually-referenced works of fiction that eventually just seeps into your brain by osmosis. I’m pretty sure I did read an abridged version in primary school, and I’ve read the excellent 2006 graphic novel Dark Horse put out, and I’ve seen the (greatly underrated) 2005 Spielberg film, and I’ve read Christopher Priest’s bizarre mash-up of it in The Space Machine. I know the plot pretty much off by heart. So it was with surprise that I recently realised I’d never actually read the original, unabridged novel.The Martians invade England, lay waste to the land with their tripod battle machines and deadly heat-ray, scatter the British military before them, and eventually die because of Terran bacteria. That’s the synopsis that everybody knows. But even if you think you know this story, it’s well worth reading, because unlike most 19th century classics it’s an absolute cracker of a book.One of the things I was most impressed by was Wells’ ability to develop a dreadful suspense, even though I knew precisely what was coming – and, you know, I’m sure even the readers at the time figured it out from the title. The War of the Worlds begins on a beautiful midsummer night in the London commuter town of Woking, amidst the utterly ordinary environment of the Victorian suburbs. (Incidentally, I enjoyed how the summer itself seemed a visceral part of the events – what is it about apocalyptic stories and summer? The Stand and the TV series The Walking Dead come to mind.) Strange conflagrations are witnessed by astronomers on the surface of Mars, and shortly afterwards, a falling star lands on the common near Woking. This moment in time – the beautifully written warm twilight of a Friday evening – is merely the beginning of a terrible destruction that will be wrought upon southern England.Alien invasion stories are a dime a dozen these days, but when Wells first wrote The War of the Worlds it was something completely new: one of the first hard science fiction novels, challenging notions about British (and indeed human) supremacy over the planet, and depicting the reactions of the characters to terrible events above and beyond them with stunning clarity. One the one hand, it’s fascinating to see how differently a apocalyptic event would have been a century ago, chiefly in how slowly the news travels – even the narrator remarks on how strange it is, a few hours after the first Martians incinerate dozens of people at the first landing site, for him to stumble terrified back into Woking and find that only a few miles away people are still going about their business. Likewise, the true gravity of the situation is slow to descend upon the citizens of the capital, chiefly because “the majority of people in London do not read Sunday papers.”Yet on the other hand, when the reality of the danger does sink in, Wells’ description of the panicked evacuation of six million people from London – one of the finest scenes in the novel – is weirdly modern. One might have expected a Victorian writer to fill it with acts of bravery, chivalry and decorum, but instead we see an ugly mass of people trampling over each other in their haste to escape.Had the Martians aimed only at destruction, they might on Monday have annihilated the entire population of London, as it spread itself slowly through the home counties. Not only along the road through Barnet, but also through Edgware and Waltham Abbey, and along the roads eastward to Southend and Shoeburyness, and south of the Thames to Deal and Broadstairs, poured the same frantic rout. If one could have hung that June morning in a balloon in the blazing blue above London every northward and eastward road running out of the tangled maze of streets would have seemed stippled black with the streaming fugitives, each dot a human agony of terror and physical distress. I have set forth at length in the last chapter my brother’s account of the road through Chipping Barnet, in order that my readers may realise how that swarming of black dots appeared to one of those concerned. Never before in the history of the world had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together. The legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current. And this was no disciplined march; it was a stampede–a stampede gigantic and terrible–without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong. It was the beginning of the rout of civilisation, of the massacre of mankind.The various acts of panicked violence which follow are, to use the word again, modern – a realistic point of view I would have expected from a mid-century writer, not a Victorian. It’s enthralling stuff.It’s also an eerie book to read from a modern perspective, not least of all as we approach the centenary of World War I. That war was still sixteen years distant when The War of the Worlds was released, but it’s uncanny how many things Wells accurately predicted: the total warfare, the sacking of towns and cities, the armoured fighting machines, and – most disturbing of all – the indiscriminate use of chemical weapons. On the other hand, something a lot of people don’t know about The War of the Worlds is that in Wells’ fictional universe, there are actually humans living alongside the Martians on Mars, albeit as slaves and food sources. This is only mentioned once, and it’s hard to tell whether it’s poetic license on Wells’ part or whether he thought that might be a genuine scientific possibility. Either way, it seems odd compared to how prescient the rest of the book was.It’s hard to overstate just how much of an impact this novel had on the rest of the century’s science fiction. Even the final chapters, as the narrator walks across a deserted London – a scene that feels almost cinematic in its use of noise and silence – no doubt influenced the opening of John Wyndham’s classic The Day of the Triffids, which in turn was the inspiration for the film 28 Days Later, and so on and so forth. And I can’t stress enough just how madly, horribly inventive and compelling every part of this book is: the crowd gathered around the first cylinder at sunset on a hot summer’s day, the image of a Martian tripod striding down the Thames past the Houses of Parliament, the panicked flight of millions of Londoners, the devastated countryside choked with alien red weed, the derelict tripod on Primrose Hill dripping with “lank shreds of brown.” The War of the Worlds is an absolute classic of literature, and if you think you know the story and don’t need to read the book, think again. And, of course, it’s in the public domain and you can read it for free, so there’s no excuse not to.
    • 4/5
      I liked this much more than Well's The Time Machine! Interesting that this too has a first person narration in which the narrator is never named.
    • 3/5
      As my first foray into the world of Sci Fi, I really enjoyed the vivid descriptions of everything, the emotional battles, the difficult people encountered and the scientific rationing of how to deal with and vanquish the Martians.

      I even really enjoyed the Science vs Faith interplay, and relish the crushing defeat of the Martians at the hands of... well, I won't say for spoiler's sake.

      H.G. Wells... I shall read more of you soon.
    • 5/5
      War of the Worlds is a classic horror story. It is also the basis for most science-fiction as science answers every question the book poses. The 2005 movie was a good representation of the book. Also, I found a copy of Orsen Wells' 1930s recording of War of the Worlds, which is fun to listen to at night.
    • 4/5
      Really liked this book; I genrally like HG Wells' books, and this is definitely one of his better works. His descriptions of the Martians are great, as are the descriptions of the desolation and chaos in the time after the arrival of these aliens.One thing I found strange and somewhat annoying is the insistence that the Martians are/have been human-like. Even after it becomes obvious that they do not look like us at all, it is claimed that they must have evolved from human-like beings. But why would this be the case? Isn't it possible that on Mars, where the environment is so different from our own, evolution went in a completely different direction and that these creature were never human-like, but are simply different from us? I find it annoying that Wells discards this possibility completely, when to me it seems strange to think that aliens are necessarily human-like.
    • 4/5
      Everyone knows this is about the Martians invading. Most people probably know even more of the plot from having seen various film adaptations. I haven't seen any of them, but even so I had a good idea of what the aliens looked like before I even opened the book (and not just because the cover of my edition has illustrations of them done by Edward Gorey). So I'll just go over the outline - Martians land on earth, Martians kill everything in sight with some combination of heat ray, poison gas, and feeding habits, humans are resigned to total domination, the end of the book offers some uncertain reprieve.With that over, let's talk about the themes explored in the book. Much like The Time Machine, Wells has opinions on man's fate that aren't all that positive. Hubris is obviously one of man's biggest failings, in Wells' view, both for thinking that we are alone in the universe, and for thinking that getting rid of extraterrestrial invaders will be an easy task. Parallels are also drawn between man's dominion over the animals and finding the shoe on the other foot as Martians gain dominance on earth. Ultimately, the book seems to say that problems exist for which humans aren't going to have the answers, and we'd better hope that the planet itself can rescue us.Recommended for: fans of future tech and/or Martians, microbiologists, anyone who's ever wondered if, in the event of an invasion, the English would offer tea to the interlopers.Quote: "At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the invaders without all this inconvenience."
    • 4/5
      Reading another H.G. Wells novel I first read decades ago was like reading it for the first time. All the film versions, the Orson Welles radio theater, and the derivatives, do not detract from Wells's story. He manages the trick of describing an alien invasion, an event of worldwide importance, from the point of view of an anonymous observer who happens to witness the first landing. The science is out-dated--no radios or computers, for example, but the story left me with a sense Wells himself must have had of the fragility and promise of human life.
    • 5/5
      A very scary book for me and i've been de-sensitised by a childhood full of freddie kruger so how people felt at the turn of the century reading this i can't imagine. Well written apart from the fast ending, a must read before watching that travesty of a film.
    • 4/5
      I like Im sure many others have probably read this book on the back of owning or at least listening to Jeff Waynes musical version. Much to my dissappoinment there is no audio book narrated by Richard Burton, which if Im honest I would have bought insead of the book its self if such a thing exsisted. The whole book was read in Richard Burtons voice in my head as a result!. Certainly food for thought, and reading the book reminds you when it was actually set. I always had the mental image if it being much more modern thanks to Waynes creativity. Nevertheless a rare and enjoyable dabble with fiction for me
    • 4/5
      The funny thing is that the first time I ever read this classic was in Spanish. It made it a harder read but I really enjoyed it. The movie with Tom Cruise came after I read it and it was pretty freaky & scary. But anyway back to the book I would recommend the spanish version to any spanish readers who want to practice their vocabulary. It's not that hard and an interesting way to practice. I wish I knew of more scifi books in Spanish!