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The War of the Worlds (1898) follows an anonymous philosophical writer in Surrey as Martians arrive in cylinders, unleash Heat-Rays and Black Smoke, and march toward London on towering tripods. Often credited as the first modern alien-invasion novel, Wells's vision of imperial collapse and biological reckoning has shaped a century of science fiction.
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