Title: The tripods attack!
Description: In early twentieth-century London, orphaned sixteen-year-old Gilbert, pulled from his factory job to write a news story about meteors, finds himself facing invaders from Mars and also learning of a sinister conspiracy related to his own past.
Subjects: Childhood and youth, Conduct of life, Conspiracies, Extraterrestrial beings, Fiction, Orphans, Science fiction
People: G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)