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The War of the Worlds -- H. G. Wells, Paperback Archaeology / Anthropology Celebrated Adaptation: The basis forThe first modern tale of alien invasion, H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential science fiction novels ever published. The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, nave locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all destroying heat ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge.