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In the closing years of the nineteenth century, an unnamed narrator watches a falling star land on Horsell Common, near London. It is not a meteor. Inside the cylinder, something has travelled across the emptiness between the worlds, and it has not come to talk. Within days the tripod fighting machines are levelling the suburbs of Surrey, the Heat-Ray is burning men to ash in the road, and the Royal Navy's last ironclad goes down fighting something it cannot possibly outrun. Told by a man who spends the invasion separated from everyone he loves, trying simply to stay alive and sane, H. G. Wells's masterpiece invented the modern alien invasion -- and the uneasy idea, still fresh after more than a century, that the planet's ownership may only ever have been a matter of who was better armed. Narrated by Alex Mercer.