Although he wrote a number of different types of fiction as well
as non-fiction, he is best remembered for his science fiction.
His firm grounding in science shows forth in this genre. In
1938, Orson Welles, broadcast a dramatization on radio of H. G.
Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds", which was so believable
that people fled their homes to avoid the Martian invasion.
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports
about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the
arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the
Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's
comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out
of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the
Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet
tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the
surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the
countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of
all hope as England's military suffers defeat af