War of the Worlds

A shooting star streaks through the sky and the next day a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common near Woking in Surrey. Soon the tentacled Martian invaders are building killing machines, intent on destroying all humankind with their Black Smoke and Heat-Rays. In 1938, an adaptation of the novel broadcast on American radio, narrated by Orson Welles, is said to have caused mass panic among listeners.A new Faber Classics edition of the Victorian science fiction novel.