What is The War of the Worlds?
{{italictitle}} [[File:The War of the Worlds by Henrique Alvim Corrêa 15.jpg|thumb|A drawing of a Martian war machine featured in the book]] '''''The War of the Worlds''''' is an 1898 [[science fiction]] book by [[H. G. Wells]]. It is about [[Mars|Martians]] attacking Earth. A 1938 radio broadcast version by [[Orson Welles]] frightened many people, who thought it was real even though there was a warning at the start telling people it was fiction. ==Plot== The book is set in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] at the [[1900|turn of the 19th century]] and is told by a [[First-person narrative|first-person narrator]]. The Martians are jealous of Earth’s more livable [[environment]] and launch themselves to Earth in capsules fired from cannons. They easily defeat the human military with their giant war machines, [[aircraft]], [[poison gas]], and [[Directed-energy weapon|heat rays]]. The narrator travels through the now ruined Britain and encounters [[Invasive species|invasive]] alien plants, Martian [[robot|robots]], and the Martians themselves-- who are strange slug-like beings with [[Tentacle|tentacles]] who feed on human [[blood]]. Eventually, the Martian invasion is stopped when the Martians become infected by Earth [[Pathogen|germs]] that they have no [[Immunity (medical)|immunity]] to and die. {{DEFAULTSORT:War of the Worlds}} [[Category:1890s books]] [[Category:Science fiction books]] [[Category:Books by H. G. Wells]] {{lit-stub}}