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The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

1898 · Science fiction · Novel

Open Library OL52114W

Martian cylinders fall on the English countryside and the narrator walks through the collapse of ordinary life. Wells aimed the invasion at the empire that had invaded others.

About the author

Wells used impossible machines to write about class, empire, and the future as a place we might not like. The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds are the pair on this shelf. More of this shelf for H. G. Wells.

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