by H. G. Wells · William Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780008190019
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«The War of the Worlds» is the science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published by William Collins in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In late nineteenth-century England, an object fallen from the sky turns out to be the first sign of a Martian invasion. The aliens, with machines equipped with heat rays and poisonous smoke, sow destruction in their wake. The anonymous narrator crosses a devastated landscape while humanity hangs by a thread.
2017 edition from the Collins Classics collection. Wells serialized the novel in the United Kingdom in 1897, and it is one of the earliest extraterrestrial invasion narratives in the genre.
For readers of classics and science fiction who want to discover one of the foundational works of the genre.
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is most known today for his groundbreaking science fiction novels; he has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.
