![]() ![]() Book One also imparts the experience of his brother, also unnamed, who describes events in the capital and escapes the Martians by boarding a ship near Tillingham, on the Essex coast. The narrator, a philosophically-inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to southern England. The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. Written between 18, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. It is the first-person narrative of the adventures of an unnamed protagonist and his brother in Surrey and London as Earth is invaded by Martians. ![]() The first appearance in book form was published by William Heinemann of London in 1898. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. ![]() The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. ![]()
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