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The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells · 1898 · Science fiction

60,000 words 2.9h at 350 WPM

Synopsis

Martians land in Surrey and proceed to destroy Victorian England with heat-rays and fighting machines while the narrator walks through the catastrophe in a stunned daze. The first alien invasion novel, and the one that established every template the genre has used since.

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H. G. WellsBritish · 1866–1946

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