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Fiction    From 1897 

The War of the Worlds

Categories: Literature

Countries: USA

The War of the Worlds

Novel by H. G. Wells about the invasion of Earth by Mars. One of the first novels in the science-fiction genre. It has been filmed, produced as a musical album by Jeff Wayne, and famously caused near panic in America when Orson Welles adapted it as a radio play.

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The War of the Worlds

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The Woking Martian

Around the sculpture are several pavement slabs representing the bacteria, wh...

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Woking Martian Cylinder

The web address no longer has Wells' material on it, but the Guardian reporte...

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