The War of the Worlds
Illustration from the 1906 French edition
Author	Herbert George Wells
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publisher	William Heinemann
Publication date	1898
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback) & E-book
Pages	303 pp (May change depending on the publisher and the size of the text)
ISBN	N/A

The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films and radio dramas, and a television series based on the story. The 1938 radio broadcast caused public outcry against the episode, as many listeners believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress, a notable example of mass hysteria. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Some notable science fiction novels, in alphabetical order by title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke 334 by Thomas M. Disch An Age by Brian Aldiss The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Hardcover books A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or sometimes leather). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... A user viewing an electronic page on an eBook reading device An e-book (for electronic book: also eBook, ecoBook) is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. ... ISBN redirects here. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For other uses, see Novel (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Green people redirects here. ... Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... The alien invasion is a common theme in science fiction stories and film, in which a technologically-superior extraterrestrial society invades Earth with the intent to replace human life, or to enslave it under a colonial system, or in some cases, to use humans as food. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... For other uses, see The War of the Worlds (disambiguation). ... Mass hysteria, also called collective hysteria or collective obsessional behavior, is the sociopsychological phenomenon of the manifestation of the same or similar hysterical symptoms by more than one person. ...

Plot summary

The story is set in the early twentieth century, and begins with the unnamed narrator, a writer of speculative scientific articles, visiting an observatory in Ottershaw on the invitation of a "noted astronomer" named Ogilvy. There he witnesses an explosion on the surface of the planet Mars, one of a series of such events that arouses much interest in the scientific community. An unspecified time later, a "meteor" is seen landing on Horsell Common, near London. The narrator's home is close by, and he is among the first to discover the object is a space-going artificial cylinder launched from Mars. The cylinder opens, disgorging the Martians: bulky, tentacled creatures that begin setting up strange machinery in the cylinder's impact crater. A human deputation moves towards the crater and is incinerated by an invisible ray of heat. This article is about scientific observatories. ... Ottershaw is a village in the Runnymede and Weybridge district of Surrey, England about 25 miles to the south-west of London. ... Galileo is often referred to as the Father of Modern Astronomy. ... Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... Photo of a burst of meteors with extended exposure time A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earths (or another bodys) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. ... Horsell in Surrey is a village on the outskirts of Woking, probably best known because of its association with the story The War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Look up cylinder in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells describes the Martians as octopus-like creatures; the body consists of only a head with eyes, v-shaped lipless beak-like mouth, and two brunches with a total of 16 tentacles. ... Tentacles can refer to the elongated flexible organs that are present in some animals, especially invertebrates, and sometimes to the hairs of the leaves of some insectivorous plants. ... Tycho crater on Earths moon. ...

A statue, erected in Woking town centre, of a tripod inspired by the book.

After the attack, the narrator takes his wife to Leatherhead to stay with relatives until the Martians are killed; upon returning home, he sees firsthand what the Martians have been assembling: towering three-legged "fighting-machines" armed with the Heat-Ray and a chemical weapon: "the black smoke". The tripods smash through the army units now positioned around the crater and attack the surrounding communities. The narrator meets a retreating artilleryman, who tells him that another cylinder has landed between Woking and Leatherhead, cutting the narrator off from his wife. The two men try to escape together, but are separated during a Martian attack on Shepperton. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 582 KB) Summary This is a statue of a Tripod inspired by the book The War of the Worlds and errected as a tribute to the books author Herbert Wells. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 582 KB) Summary This is a statue of a Tripod inspired by the book The War of the Worlds and errected as a tribute to the books author Herbert Wells. ... , See Woking (borough) for the administrative district. ... Martian tripods drawn by Warwick Goble. ... For other uses of this name, see Leatherhead (disambiguation). ... Martian tripods drawn by Warwick Goble. ... Chemical warfare is warfare (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure or incapacitate an enemy. ... The term Black Smoke is also sometimes used to refer to The Monster from the television series Lost. ... For other uses, see Artillery (disambiguation). ... , See Woking (borough) for the administrative district. ... Map of Shepperton (from OpenStreetMap) Shepperton is a small town in Surrey in the borough of Spelthorne, in England. ...

More cylinders land across the English countryside and a frantic mass evacuation of London begins; among the fleeing swarms of humanity is the narrator's brother, who is thrown together with the wife and the younger sister of a man named Elphinstone; the three of them eventually gain passage on a ship, crossing the English Channel to safety. One of the tripods is destroyed in the Shepperton battle by an artillery barrage and two more are brought down in Tillingham Bay by the torpedo ram HMS Thunder Child before the vessel is sunk, but soon all organized resistance has been beaten down, the Martian-imported red weed runs riot across the landscape, and the Martian war-machines hold sway over much of southern England. For the Thoroughbred racehorse of the same name, see English Channel (horse). ... A torpedo ram is a type of warship combining design elements from the cruiser and the monitor, intended to provide small and inexpensive weapon systems for coastal defence and other littoral combat. ... Combatants United Kingdom Martians Commanders unknown † none Strength 1 ironclad torpedo ram, Thunder Child 3 fighting-machines, Casualties Thunder Child lost 2 fighting-machines lost, fate of third unknown HMS Thunder Child is the fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G... The red weed (also referred to as the red creeper) is a plant native to Mars in The War of the Worlds. ...

The narrator becomes trapped in a half-destroyed building overlooking the crater of one of the later Martian landing sites. He covertly witnesses the Martians close at hand, including their use of captured humans as a food supply through the direct transfusion of their blood. He hides together with a curate, who has been traumatized by the attacks, and is behaving erratically. Eventually the curate starts loudly proclaiming his repentance. Terrified that they will be heard, the narrator knocks the curate unconscious, but the man's body is discovered by the Martians and dragged away. The narrator barely avoids the same fate, and the Martians eventually abandon their encampment. The narrator then travels into a deserted London where he discovers that both the red weed and the Martians themselves have abruptly succumbed to terrestrial pathogenic bacteria, to which they have no immunity. The narrator is unexpectedly reunited with his wife, and they, along with the rest of humanity, set out to face the new and expanded view of the universe which the invasion has impressed upon them. Blood transfusion is the taking of blood or blood-based products from one individual and inserting them into the circulatory system of another. ... For other uses, see Blood (disambiguation). ... From the Latin curatus (compare Curator), a curate is a person who is invested with the care, or cure (cura), of souls of a parish. ... A pathogen (literally birth of pain from the Greek παθογένεια) is a biological agent that can cause disease to its host. ... Phyla Actinobacteria Aquificae Chlamydiae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Lentisphaerae Nitrospirae Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Verrucomicrobia Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are unicellular microorganisms. ...

Sequence of events

Martian war machines loom over the River Thames in an illustration by Warwick Goble.

Ten Martian landings are mentioned in the novel commencing in June "early in the twentieth century": Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x767, 120 KB)Illustration from War of the Worlds as published in Pearsons Magazine, 1897 Scanned by User:Rayay Aug 22 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x767, 120 KB)Illustration from War of the Worlds as published in Pearsons Magazine, 1897 Scanned by User:Rayay Aug 22 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this... This article is about the River Thames in southern England. ... An illustration by Warwick Goble for Beauty and the Beast, 1913. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

• First Martian Landing (Day 1): Horsell Common.
• Second Martian Landing (Day 2): Addlestone Golf links.
• Third Martian Landing (Day 3): Pyrford.
• Fourth Martian Landing (Day 4): Bushy Park, Teddington (written as Bushey in the text, but given its proximity to the other landing places is much more likley than Bushey in Hertfordshire)
• Fifth Martian Landing (Day 5): Sheen.
• Sixth Martian Landing (Day 6): Wimbledon.
• Seventh Martian Landing (Day 7): Primrose Hill, London.
• 8th, 9th, 10th Landings (Days 8, 9, 10): landing sites not mentioned in the book - presumably within London.

The duration of the war is three weeks: Horsell in Surrey is a village on the outskirts of Woking, probably best known because of its association with the story The War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells. ... , Addlestone is a town in the Runnymede Borough of Surrey, England. ... Pyrford is a village in Surrey. ... Sheen is a place in southwest London nearby to Barnes, Roehampton and Putney to the east and Richmond to the west. ... , This article is about the district of London. ... , Primrose Hill is a hill located on the north side of Regents Park in north London, and also the name for the surrounding district. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

• On Days 1 and 2, the Martians secure their initial bridgehead around Woking.
• On Day 3, they begin first major offensives of the invasion (the Battle of Weybridge/Shepperton and begin the attack on London).
• Day 4 sees the great panic and exodus from London. The Martians advance to the great city's center.
• On Day 5, the narrator is imprisoned by the fifth Martian landing.
• On Day 6, the city of London is entirely occupied by the Martians. This day also sees the sea-battle off the Blackwater estuary with the loss of the Thunder Child.
• During Days 5 to 18, the narrator watches the Martians while still trapped in a basement hidden in a heap of coal.
  • Day 10 is the approximate date on which Leatherhead (the town to which the narrator had sent his wife for safety) is destroyed by a Martian, killing everyone. Fortunately, his wife escapes before the attack and they are reunited after the Martians' destruction.
• On Days 19 and 20, the narrator makes his way to London.
• During the night on Day 21, the Martians are found dead.

, See Woking (borough) for the administrative district. ... Combatants United Kingdom Martians Commanders Brigadier-General Marvin † Ullachda(Martian War Commander)Zethnok Strength 8th Hussars, 12th Horse Artillery 5 fighting-machines Casualties Both towns destroyed, sizeable civilian and military casualties and total loss of materiel 1 fighting-machine lost, remaining fighting-machines retired to Horsell Common The Battle of... Combatants United Kingdom Martians Commanders unknown unknown Strength 115 Artillery Batteries 7 fighting-machines Casualties Total loss of materiel, heavy civilian and military casualties no fighting-machines lost In H. G. Wells fictional classic, The War of the Worlds, London fell to the Martian invaders. ... The Blackwater Estuary is the estuary of the Essex River Blackwater in south-east England. ... Combatants United Kingdom Martians Commanders unknown † none Strength 1 ironclad torpedo ram, Thunder Child 3 fighting-machines, Casualties Thunder Child lost 2 fighting-machines lost, fate of third unknown HMS Thunder Child is the fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G... For other uses of this name, see Leatherhead (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Scientific predictions and accuracy

In 1878, Italian astronomer, Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835-1910) observed natural features on Mars and called them canali (Italian for "channels"); this was mistranslated into the English "canals" (artificial rivers) , fuelling the belief that there was some sort of intelligent extraterrestrial life on the planet. Galileo is often referred to as the Father of Modern Astronomy. ... Map of Mars by Giovanni Schiaparelli. ... For other uses, see Canal (disambiguation). ...

Wells depicts the Martians firing spacecraft to Earth from a giant space gun, a common representation of space travel in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when they had little knowledge of space travel, bearing similarity to the modern spacecraft propulsion concept of mass drivers. There are various methods of space launch, one of them is to shoot something out of a gigantic gun. ... A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to change the velocity of spacecraft and artificial satellites. ... A mass driver for lunar launch (artists conception) A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a method of spacecraft propulsion that would use a linear motor to accelerate payloads up to high speeds. ...

Military theorists of that era had many speculations of building a "fighting-machine" or "land dreadnought" (as the Royal Navy called this hypothetical machine on which some experiments were made just before the First World War). Wells's concept of the Martian tripods, fast-moving and equipped with Heat-Rays and black smoke, represents an ultimate end to these speculations, although Wells also presents a less fantastical depiction of the armoured fighting vehicle in his short story "The Land Ironclads". [1] [2] HMS Audacious, a British super-dreadnought launched in 1912 A dreadnought was a battleship of the early 20th century, of a type modelled after the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought of 1906. ... This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ... An armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle, protected by armour and armed with weapons. ... Written in 1904 by HG Wells, The Land Ironclads is a short story set in a war similar to the First World War. ...

On a different field, the book explicitly suggests that the Martians' anatomy may reflect the far future development of mankind itself — i.e. that with the increasing development of machines, the body is largely discarded and what remains is essentially a brain that "wears" a different (mechanical) body for every need, just as humans wear the clothes appropriate to a particular weather or work.

Interpretations

H.G. Wells was a strong supporter of the theory of evolution, and saw every species as being engaged in a constant, and often brutal struggle for survival. In the book, the Martian/mankind conflict is portrayed as a similar struggle, but on a larger scale. The book explores the morality inherent in social Darwinism, an ideology of some prominence at the time. This article is about evolution in biology. ... Social Darwinism is the idea that Charles Darwins theory can be extended and applied to the social realm, i. ...

The science fiction author Isaac Asimov argued that the book was intended as an indictment of European colonial actions in Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas. In the mindset of the time, European technological superiority was seen as evidence of all-round superiority, and thus Europeans were more qualified to administer colonized regions than their native inhabitants. The novel challenges this perspective by conflating the justness of the Martian invasion with the colonial invasions made by European powers. Wells himself introduces this theme in the novel's first chapter: Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), pronounced , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов [1], was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... It has been suggested that Benign colonialism be merged into this article or section. ...

And before we judge them [the Martians] too harshly, we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished Bison and the Dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit? Species †B. antiquus B. bison B. bonasus †B. latifrons †B. occidentalis †B. priscus Bison in winter. ... For other uses, see Dodo (disambiguation). ... A picture of the last four Tasmanian Aborigines c. ...

—Chapter I, "The Eve of the War"

Animal rights activist David McKnight, writing in the November 2004 issue of Human and Animal Rights, noted that at least five vegetarians and animal rights activists known to him were substantially influenced to take their stance by reading Wells's book, which vividly conveys human beings' horror at becoming in effect the Martians' food animals. A man holds a monkey with a limb missing by a rope around her neck, a scene epitomizing the idea of animal ownership. ... A variety of vegetarian food ingredients Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products. ...

Unanswered questions

• The narrator comments that on the fourth or fifth night of his imprisonment in the rubble of the fifth Martian landing, he heard two sets of six distinct reports - sounding like heavy guns firing. No explanation is ever given for this event, although one might assume that it is the British army or navy attacking the tripods with artillery.
• There is no description of the aftermath of the Southend battle, it should be noted that this event occurs in the River Blackwater estuary north of Southend-on-Sea, (Martians vs HMS Thunder Child), so it was not explained if the three supporting ironclads did any damage to the third Martian fighting machine. Though there is a passage that indicates an action at Shoeburyness (a coastal artillery and testing range), just east of Southend (and through which the Martians would have had to have travelled, give their direction of march) it is left undescribed.
• After the Thunder Child incident, no account of the narrator's brother is given, although it can be inferred that he survived to tell the narrator of the events he witnessed. (The original edition, published in Pearson's Magazine, indicates that he married one of his female companions from the London exodus.)
• No information on the landing sites of the eighth, ninth, and tenth Martian invasion ships were given. The only information given is that the site of the seventh landing was "the final and largest" base.
• The narrator's name and his brother's name are never revealed. Some altered versions say that he was H. G. Wells and that his brother is Wells' brother Frank. (This goes hand in hand with The Time Machine, in which the also nameless narrator is often equated with Wells.)
• Although the narrator states that the Martians' "queer hooting invariably preceded feeding" and was "in no sense a signal", and suggesting that the Martians can communicate via telepathy, the Martians evidently do also communicate audibly, the Fighting Machines, using howling sirens at several points in the narrative. In the scenes of destroyed London, the narrator refers several times to a sound written as "Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla" which seems to be a cry of mourning uttered by a lone Martian.
• In the final scene of the London Exodus, an object appears in the sky, flying overhead, and "rained down darkness upon the land". The object is usually identified as the flying-machine and the suggestion is made that the "darkness" is the Black Smoke both literally and as a metaphorical darkness of the Martians' power. This is supported during the narrator's second encounter with the Artilleryman, who suggests that the martians have been experimenting with a flying machine with a view to expanding their operations beyond the UK. (The original edition, published in Pearson's Magazine, supports this as explicitly, mentioning that it had been used "to spread their black powder".)

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Relation to invasion literature

Researchers have noted the connection between Wells' book and the sub-genre known as "invasion literature" which was very common in the West - and particularly in Britain - in the decades before the First World War, and which reflected the increasing feeling of anxiety and insecurity as international tensions escalated towards the coming war. The Battle of Dorking (1871) triggered an explosion of invasion literature. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

Most such books had plots concerned with human armies invading each other's country, with British books mostly depicting German and/or French invading armies on British soil. Still, there were noted many plot similarities between Wells' book and The Battle of Dorking (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney: in both books, a ruthless enemy makes a devastating surprise attack, with the British armed forces helpless to stop its relentless advance; and both works contain many passages written in the author's own voice which seem designed to try and shake Britons out of the complacent self-satisfaction of the Victorian age. The Battle of Dorking (1871) triggered an explosion of invasion literature. ... Sir George Tomkyns Chesney (April 30, 1830-March 31, 1895), British Army general, brother of Colonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney, was born at Tiverton, Devon, on April 30, 1830. ... The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...

There are also similarities between Wells' book and the widely successful The Great War in England in 1897 published four years earlier (1894) by William Le Queux, where an invading French army penetrates to the heart of London - though Le Queux's book is written in a spirit of jingoistic nationalism opposite to Wells' tone. Written by William Le Queux and published by Tower Publishing Co. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Adaptations

The War of the Worlds has been adapted numerous times for radio, film (see The War of the Worlds (film)), TV, and video games. Often the particular adaptation will change the setting to the current time and the place to where the adaptation is made The War of the Worlds film may refer to: The War of the Worlds (1953 film), a 1953 film produced by George Pál, for Paramount Pictures (2005 film), a film directed by Timothy Hines, for Pendragon Pictures (2005 film), a film directed by David Michael Latt (titled Invasion internationally...

• Orson Welles' 1938 radio adaptation
• War Of The Worlds radio broadcast, Santiago (1944)
• War Of The Worlds radio broadcast, Quito (1949)
• The war of the worlds 1950, BBC radio dramatisation
• The 1953 film, produced by George Pál
• The war of the worlds 1967, BBC radio dramatisation
• 1968 WKBW radio adaptation
• Jeff Wayne's 1978 musical adaptation
• A 1984 home computer game
• The 1988 TV series
• An arcade game
• NPR 50th Anniversary radio adaptation
• Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, a 1998 computer game
• Justice League (TV series) adapts the main events and visuals of the novel for the three part story Secret Origins. Martians attack earth via tripods and a team of superheroes, including Superman, attempt to stop them.
• Volume II of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a comic book
• The 2005 film directed by Steven Spielberg
• The 2005 film directed by Timothy Hines
• The 2005 film directed by David Michael Latt
• The Art of H. G. Wells by Ricardo Garijo, the third in the series of trading cards, released in 2005, is The War of the Worlds [3]
• 2006 graphic novel
• The EA Game, Command and Conquer 3 features an alien invasion by a race called the scrin. One of the Scrin's units in the game is a tripod.
• The War Of The Servers is an internet movie spoof, by Robert Stoneman, of The War Of The Worlds, set in Half-Life 2's sandbox mod, Garrys Mod, which is about a sudden invasion of thousands of "Mingebags" who attack G-Mod servers and crash them mercilessly, and various Admin's (Server administrators) attempts to thwart them. This movie is closely based on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War Of The Worlds.

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Unrealised adaptations

• After World War II, Ray Harryhausen shot a scene of an alien emerging from a Martian war machine, part of an unrealised project to adapt the story using Wells' original "octopus" concept for the Martians. A video of the footage can be found here ^[1]

Here Harryhausen talks about his proposed adaptation: Ray Harryhausen, with creations from Clash of the Titans. ...

"Yes, originally, after Mighty Joe I made a lot of sketches for War of the Worlds. I wanted to keep it in the period that H.G. Wells wrote it, of the Victorian period, and I made eight big drawings, some of which are published - in the book and it would have been an interesting picture, if it was made years ago. But since then so many pictures of that nature have been made that it wouldn't be quite unique as it would have been." ^[2]

Influence

The theme of alien invasion has remained popular ever since the story's initial publishing, some modern examples being Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, the "Worldwar" series by Harry Turtledove, and the film Independence Day. Tim Burton's farcical Mars Attacks! shares many themes with The War of the Worlds, particularly the unexpected and inglorious demise of the Martian invaders. The alien invasion is a common theme in science fiction stories and film, in which a technologically-superior extraterrestrial society invades Earth with the intent to replace human life, or to enslave it under a colonial system, or in some cases, to use humans as food. ... Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jerry Eugene Pournelle, Ph. ... Worldwar is a series of four alternate history science fiction novels by Harry Turtledove. ... Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. ... Independence Day (also known by its promotional abbreviation ID4) is a 1996 Academy Award-winning science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich. ... Timothy Tim William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated American film director, writer and designer notable for the quirky and often dark atmosphere in his high-profile films. ... This article is about the film. ...

The idea of mecha also originated in The War of the Worlds. The AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back were roughly based on the idea of walking war machines. Tripod-like machines called Striders employed by the Combine from the computer game Half Life 2 along with other themes bear striking resemblance to those mentioned in the book. The Sentinels from the Matrix trilogy are also machines with many tentacles, and are seen grabbing humans (though only to throw them to their deaths) during the siege of Zion as shown in The Matrix Revolutions. Powered armour as popularised in Starship Troopers can also be traced back to The War of the Worlds; indeed, Heinlein's novel can be seen as a response to Wells'. This article is about the term used in science fiction, anime, and manga. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Movie poster Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the first released Star Wars movie, and the second film released in the original trilogy. ... This is a list of humanoid and synthetic forces employed by the Combine empire in Half-Life 2, a 2004 first-person shooter, and its episodes. ... The Combine is a fictional powerful alien race and empire from Valve Corporations 2004 first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2. ... Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter computer game and the highly anticipated sequel to Half-Life developed by Valve Software. ... The Matrix series consists primarily of three films, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. ... The Matrix Revolutions is the third and final film in The Matrix trilogy. ... U.S. Army conceptual mock-up of an exoskeleton-equipped soldier. ... For other uses, see Starship Troopers (disambiguation). ...

The War of the Worlds presents a hypothetical scenario of how humans may defeat the Martians in the speculations of a lone artilleryman encountered by the hero, who imagines a world where humanity, recognising that it cannot win through direct conflict, commences a guerrilla war. The Martians would rule Earth for generations to come; most humans (especially the "soft" middle classes towards whom complete contempt is shown) would soon get used to being domestic animals, whereas a nucleus of daring humans would hide out in tunnels and sewers, and would have about the same place in the Martian-dominated ecology as rats in the previous human ecology. After the passage of generations, these defiant humans would learn to duplicate the Martian weapons and destroy the invaders. The artilleryman's ambition is eventually exposed as nothing more than one man's delusion of grandeur (see megalomania) — he has no means to set about the project, and shows a complete lack of determination to complete even the simple and short-term goals that would set the rest of his plans in motion. A number of authors have, however, followed on from that theme. Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ... This article is about rats. ... This article is about the psychopathological condition. ...

The Tripods is a sci-fi trilogy for young adults written between 1967 and 1968 by John Christopher. It depicts the Earth after it has been overcome by aliens in three-legged machines. Humanity has been enslaved, and the books focus on the struggle by some teenagers to join the last free members of humanity in their cave refuges in the mountains. John Christopher admitted (in a BBC documentary called The Cult of the Tripods) that the alien war machines were inspired, at least subconsciously, by The War of the Worlds. The Tripods TV series title card, seemingly computer-generated, but made using traditional animation The Tripods is series of novels written by Samuel Youd (under the pen name John Christopher) beginning in the late 1960s. ... Samuel Youd (born April 16, 1922) is a British science fiction author. ... Green people redirects here. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...

Robert A. Heinlein took up the same theme, in a slightly more humorous way, in his The Number of the Beast where the heroes visit several different versions of Mars. One of them is the home planet of Martians who managed to hold on to the conquered Earth. The heroes encounter tribes of humans living in the Martian wilds, descendants of captive humans who had been transported to Mars by the conquerors and there managed to escape. Also on Mars, the wild humans still speak cockney English — while the Martians' obedient slaves seem descended mainly from upper-class Englishmen. Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ... The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. ... St Mary-le-Bow The term cockney is often used to refer to working-class people of London, particularly east London, and the slang used by these people. ...

Along with Christopher's Tripods, L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth and the 1980s television miniseries and series V are other notable examples where the story starts sometime after a successful alien invasion of Earth; instead focusing on the determination of a few humans using guerrilla tactics to defeat the alien occupation and the obstacles they must face both from the aliens and fellow humans alike. In such stories, the aliens tend to get far more character development than the faceless monsters originally depicted in the Wells novel. This allows room for subplots told on both sides. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was the founder of the Church of Scientology, as well as the author of Dianetics and the body of works comprising Scientology doctrine. ... Battlefield Earth is the title of both a science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and a film adaptation of the novel produced by and starring John Travolta. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... V is a science fiction TV franchise created by American producer and director Kenneth Johnson concerning aliens known as The Visitors trying to take over Earth. ... Guerilla may refer to Guerrilla warfare. ...

Sequels by other authors

A number of people have written follow-up stories, often telling how the invasion went in places other than Britain. Two notable stories of this type are:

• "Night of the Cooters" by Howard Waldrop, in which a Martian war machine lands in Texas.
• "Foreign Devils" by Walter Jon Williams, set in China.

War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, edited by Kevin J. Anderson, is an anthology of such stories (ISBN 0-553-10353-9). Howard Waldrop (born September 15, 1946) in Houston, Mississippi, and got his degree from the University of Texas. ... Walter Jon Williams (born 15 October 1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. ... |200px| ]] Pseudonym: Gabriel Mesta Born: March 27, 1962 ) Oregon, Wisconsin, U.S. Occupation: Author Genres: Science fiction Debut works: Resurrection, Inc Influences: The War of the Worlds Kevin J. Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is a prolific American science fiction author. ...

Within six weeks of the novel's original 1897 magazine serialisation, the New York Journal American began running a sequel, Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss, about an Earth counter-attack against the Martians, led by Thomas Edison. 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... One of the New York Journals most infamous cartoons, depicting Philippine-American War General Jacob H. Smiths order Kill Everyone over Ten, from the front page on May 5, 1902. ... Edisons Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss, is one of the many science fiction novels published in the nineteenth century. ... Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. ... Edison redirects here. ...

Eric Brown wrote a short story, "Ulla, Ulla" (2002) about an expedition to Mars, finding the truth behind H.G. Wells' novel. Eric Brown is the name of several people: Eric Winkle Brown, British test pilot Eric Brown (science fiction author) Eric Brown (actor) Eric Brown (golfer) [[Eric e. ...

A French-Canadian author, Jean-Pierre Guillet, wrote a sequel to the book called La Cage de Londres, ("The Cage of London"). After the aliens were defeated, they plotted revenge, and came back prepared to finally enslave humanity, and breed it for their bloody needs. The Cage of London is one of those breeding sites.

In the novel W. G. Grace's Last Case by Willie Rushton, W. G. Grace and Doctor Watson avert a second Martian invasion by attacking the Martian fleet on the far side of the moon with "bombs" containing influenza germs. William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (August 18, 1937–December 11, 1996) was a British cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer. ... William Gilbert Grace (July 18, 1848 – October 23, 1915) was an English cricketer who, by his extraordinary skills, made cricket a popular spectator sport, and who developed most of the techniques of modern batting. ... Dr Watson (left) and Sherlock Holmes, by Sidney Paget. ... Flu redirects here. ...

Manly and Wade Wellman wrote Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds which describes Sherlock Holmes's adventures during the Martian occupation of London, turned the Martians into simple vampires, who suck and ingest human blood. Sherlock Holmes War of the Worlds is a sub-sequel to The War of the Worlds, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

In the 1970s, Marvel Comics had a character named Killraven Warrior of the Worlds who (in an alternative timeline) fought H. G. Wells' Martians after their second invasion of Earth in 2001. He first appeared in Amazing Adventures volume 2 #18. This article is about the comic book company. ... Jonathan Raven, better known as Killraven, the Warrior of the Worlds, is a freedom fighter in a post-apocalyptic alternate future (Earth-691) of the fictional Marvel Universe. ... Amazing Adventures is the name of several anthology-format comic book series, all but one published by Marvel Comics. ...

The comic book Scarlet Traces begins a decade later with Great Britain utilising the Martians' technology, and ironic to the allegory of Wells' novel, have become more powerful because of it. Eventually, this leads up to a counter-invasion aimed for Mars in its own sequel, The Great Game. Scarlet Traces is a set of stories written by Ian Edginton, drawn by DIsraeli and published by Dark Horse Comics. ...

In 1962, Soviet author Lasar Lagin published a political pamphlet named "Major Well Endue" ("Майор Велл Эндъю") which relates the story of a major in the British Army who collaborates with the Martian invaders. A condemnation of imperialism and capitalism, the story was dominated by Soviet analysis of political issues contemporary to the 1950s and 1960s. Lazar Lagin (Russian: Лазарь Иосифович Лагин, Lazar Yosifovych Lagin) (born Lazar Ginzburg, December 4, 1903 in Vitebsk – June 4, 1979) was a Soviet satirical and childrens writer. ... For the computer game, see Imperialism (computer game). ... For other uses, see Capitalism (disambiguation). ...

Other references

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• In the comic version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the invasion by the Martians is told from the perspective of The League, who are instructed to contact Doctor Moreau so that they can unleash H-142, a biological weapon that is a hybrid of anthrax and streptococcus upon the Martians.
• In The Space Machine by Christopher Priest the plot of The War of the Worlds is connected with the H. G. Wells novel The Time Machine.
• In 1978, Toshihiro Nishikado working at Taito designed the aliens for the popular arcade video game Space Invaders based on the description of the octopus-like Martians from the original Wells novel, according to an October 2005 interview with the British gaming magazine Edge.
• In Robert Rankin's The Witches of Chiswick, the Martian invasion is about to be started with a signal by the Elephant Man.
• Many aspects of Chicken Little are *parodies of the War of the Worlds, but the weapons used were slightly toned down so the victims were not killed, but teleported to another spaceship, where the victims stayed until the baby alien was returned to its parents.
• In Tad Williams's Otherland series Paul Jonas finds himself in the remains of London where the Martian invaders have survived.
• In Philip Reeve's Larklight, the martians are rather surprised to be invaded by the British Empire, in a parody of the introduction to the War of the Worlds.
• The video game Unreal Tournament 3 by Epic Games includes a tripod-like vehicle called a Darkwalker. In addition, one of the maps on which the vehicle is featured is called "Heat Ray", in reference to the weapon used by the Tripods in the War of the Worlds.
• The video game Starcraft 2 features a unit called the Colossus that looks remarkably similar to the tripod and also shoots a heat ray.
• The Video Game Command & Conquer 3 : Tiberium Wars. The alien Scrin have a vehicle called the Annihaltor Tripod which closley resembles the tripod and it shoots lasers.
• The 2006 film Scary Movie 4 mainly parodies war of the worlds. As aliens attack a small town in which the main character Cindy Campell lives.
• The video game Crash of the Titans has a level named "The War of the Whirls", a pun on this book name.

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See also

• Alien invasion
• Invasion literature
• Steampunk
• For the October 1938 alien invasion panic, see The War of the Worlds (radio)#Public reaction.

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References

1. ^ 'War of the Worlds' - Ray Harryhausen martian test footage
2. ^ Ray Harryhausen and Nick Park

External links

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