War of the Worlds | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

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00:02:30 1 Plot
00:02:56 1.1 The Coming of the Martians
00:09:02 1.2 The Earth under the Martians
00:12:32 2 Style
00:13:18 3 Scientific setting
00:16:05 4 Physical location
00:18:24 5 Cultural setting
00:19:17 6 Publication
00:21:25 7 Reception
00:21:50 8 Relation to invasion literature
00:24:35 9 Scientific predictions and accuracy
00:24:46 9.1 Mars
00:26:59 9.2 Space travel
00:28:05 9.3 Total war
00:30:26 9.4 Weapons and armour
00:31:57 10 Interpretations
00:32:07 10.1 Natural selection
00:32:52 10.2 Human evolution
00:34:09 10.3 Colonialism and imperialism
00:36:03 10.4 Social Darwinism
00:37:52 10.5 Religion and science
00:38:44 11 Influences
00:38:54 11.1 Mars and Martians
00:39:59 11.2 Aliens and alien invasion
00:40:09 11.2.1 Antecedents
00:43:20 11.2.2 Early examples of influence on science fiction
00:45:35 11.2.3 Later examples
00:46:23 11.3 Tripods
00:46:41 12 Adaptations
00:51:53 13 See also



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The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.The plot has been related to invasion literature of the time. The novel has been variously interpreted as a commentary on evolutionary theory, British imperialism, and generally Victorian superstitions, fears, and prejudices. Wells said that the plot arose from a discussion with his brother Frank about the catastrophic impact of the British on indigenous Tasmanians. What would happen, he wondered, if Martians did to Britain what the British had done to the Tasmanians? The Tasmanians however lacked the lethal pathogens to defeat their invaders. At the time of publication, it was classified as a scientific romance, like Wells's earlier novel The Time Machine. The War of the Worlds has been both popular (having never been out of print) and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, radio dramas, a record album, various comic book adaptations, a television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors. It was most memorably dramatized in a 1938 radio program that allegedly caused public panic among listeners who did not know the Martian invasion was fictional.
The novel has even influenced the work of scientists, notably Robert H. Goddard, who, inspired by the book, invented both the liquid fuelled rocket and multistage rocket, which resulted in the Apollo 11 Moon landing 71 years later.