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H. G. Wells
A cylinder falls on Horsell Common near Woking, and out of it climb Martians who build tall three-legged fighting machines and destroy everything before them…
A cylinder falls on Horsell Common near Woking, and out of it climb Martians who build tall three-legged fighting machines and destroy everything before them with a heat-ray and a poisonous black smoke. The narrator, a writer, flees across Surrey and into a ruined London, hiding for days in a half-buried house with a curate who loses his mind, while the army proves helpless. The invaders are beaten in the end not by people but by the smallest living things on earth.
H. G. Wells published the novel in 1898, partly as a mirror held up to Britain's own conquests: his Martians do to England what empires had done to others. Rebecca Dittman reads it alone, in about six and a half hours.
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