H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds has inspired countless adaptations, including the 1938 radio broadcast that famously panicked listeners who believed the alien invasion was real. Despite being written over a century ago, this science fiction classic remains accessible and engaging.
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."
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