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.