![]() ![]() Thousands of refugees are sent fleeing in the chaos created by the invasion. The merciless Martians storm the countryside in three-legged fighting machines that fire deadly heat rays and spew poisonous black smoke. ![]() The story centers on the unnamed narrator’s attempt to reunite with his wife after witnessing the devastating attacks that soon follow. An unnamed protagonist is one of the first to discover that these are actually spaceships carrying monstrous beings from the planet. It is soon discovered, when they land on Earth, that the explosions are rocket like projectiles that have been launched from Mars. When explosions are observed on Mars at an astronomical observatory the interest of the scientific community is greatly aroused. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds,” is one of the author’s most popular and enduring works. ![]()
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