Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The War of the Worlds
    Unavailable
    The War of the Worlds
    Unavailable
    The War of the Worlds
    Ebook223 pages3 hours

    The War of the Worlds

    By H. G. Wells

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Listen to the audiobook instead

    About this ebook

    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, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherH. G. Wells
    Release dateMay 2, 2016
    ISBN9786050430042
    Author

    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.

    Read more from H. G. Wells

    Related to The War of the Worlds

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      3 Books About Planets

      May 18, 2018

      The more astronomy has learned about our solar system, the more fascinating the planets have become.

      3 min read

    • Article

      At The End Of All Time

      Jan 31, 2020

      At The End Of All Time
      4 min read

    • Article

      Extraterrestrial

      Dec 1, 2019

      Extraterrestrial
      7 min read

    • Article

      What Can We Hear in Space?

      Jan 23, 2024

      On a daring flight in 1836 from London across the English Channel and beyond, the pioneering balloonist Charles Green and his companions found themselves flying at night over the city of Liège in Belgium, at that time one of Europe’s major industrial

      4 min read

    • Article

      Our Library

      Mar 17, 2021

      We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilisation superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past. At the same time, there is something inside us which we don’t like

      2 min read

    • Article

      Voyager

      Nov 27, 2023

      Voyager
      7 min read

    • Article

      Why Mars Is the Best Planet

      Jan 13, 2017

      Why Mars Is the Best Planet
      8 min read

    • Article

      Life beyond Earth?

      Dec 1, 2021

      Life beyond Earth?
      2 min read

    • Article

      H0W-TO Star Struck

      Mar 30, 2023

      H0W-TO Star Struck
      5 min read

    • Article

      Hell

      Mar 24, 2022

      Hell
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Death and Life of the Frontier: A Voyage to the Limits of the Knowable.: A voyage to the limits of the knowable.

      Aug 29, 2013

      Where does the world begin and where does it end? In many creation stories the Earth has well-defined edges. In early Mesopotamian mythology it is a flat disk floating in the ocean and surrounded by a circular sky. The Hopi people of northeastern Ari

      20 min read

    • Article

      Writing Outer Space

      Apr 12, 2018

      On the one hand, there is the world as we know it, the ground-level of human life and everything it entails: the whole arc of history, the transformation of our natural environment, nervous first dates over coffee. On the other hand, there is the rem

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Eclipse as Dark Omen

      Aug 10, 2017

      The Eclipse as Dark Omen
      7 min read

    • Article

      Why We Hunt For Alien Life

      Nov 1, 2023

      Why We Hunt For Alien Life
      4 min read

    • Article

      New Astronomy And Space Titles Reviewed BOOKS

      Apr 18, 2024

      Lisa Kaltenegger Allen Lane £25 • HB Our planet, Earth, is home to over eight million species of life, sprawling over its continents and swimming within its oceans – some can even be found deep within its rocky crust! In contrast, the surfaces of our

      5 min read

    • Article

      From The Editor

      Nov 26, 2020

      It turns out our Solar System is a pretty hospitable place. That’s been one of the major narratives of the last decade as probes and rovers have stretched out across space and got to know the planets and moons that surround us. Clearly Earth is somet

      1 min read

    • Article

      Magic Of The Moon

      Dec 28, 2023

      Magic Of The Moon
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Romantic Venus We Never Knew: Venus used to be as fit for life as Earth.

      Dec 8, 2016

      On the day that I was born—winter solstice, 1959—a headline in Life magazine proclaimed “Target Venus: There May be Life There!” It told of how scientists rode a balloon to an altitude of 80,000 feet to make telescope observations of Venus’s atmosph

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Saturnian And The Sirian

      Mar 17, 2021

      The Saturnian And The Sirian
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Counterintuitive Cosmos

      Feb 15, 2024

      The Counterintuitive Cosmos
      7 min read

    • Article

      Why We’re Drawn Into Darkness

      Oct 10, 2019

      Robert Macfarlane grew up obsessed twith climbing mountains and nearly died on several occasions as he scaled some of the world’s high peaks. He found a safer way to indulge his alpine passions, writing about the mystique of mountains. As someone dra

      6 min read

    Reviews for The War of the Worlds

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words