The War of the Worlds

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

The book that invented alien-invasion science fiction. Wells's 1898 novel: Martian war machines striding through the Surrey countryside, the Heat-Ray, the Black Smoke, the Red Weed creeping up the Thames — and a single anonymous Englishman trying to live through the end of his world. Read in 1898 as plausible scientific speculation. Read now as a parable about empire, about how flimsy civilization turns out to be when something stronger arrives, and about how helplessness feels when the thing destroying you doesn't even notice you're there.