La guerra de los mundos/ The War of the Worlds

from anterastilis

Review I had to write for class: Life on Mars has become difficult for the Martians. Having sucked their planet dry, they've focused on the lush, undefended nineteenth-century Earth as their next home in the galaxy. Humanity is completely unprepared for an alien invasion - no mass communication, ...

from DeltaQueen50

The classic science-fiction novel, The War of the Worlds originally appeared in serialized form in 1897. This is one of the first stories about a conflict between Earth and Alien visitors. The story is presented as a factual account related by a couple of unnamed characters that are brothers. One...

from Blenny

These days it's very easy to be blasé about stories of aliens from Mars invading Earth, as we've seen so many films and heard countless tales such as this throughout the 20th century. However for a book that was written at the end of the 19th century, surely Wells deserves awe and respect for his...

from mrtall

I first read War of the Worlds, H G Wells's classic dystopian scifi novel, in my early adolescence, and I remembered liking it a lot -- although its style was already archaic (I'm not that old), it held my attention and left me with several memorable images: the blob-like, tentacled Martians, the...

from baswood

Not quite the first alien invasion novel, or the first dystopian novel, or the first "contact" novel, but certainly the best that combined all three. Serialised beforehand and eventually published as a novel in 1898, this could be seen as the book that launched the whole new genre of science fict...