11 Facts About War Of The Worlds

1.

War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H G Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US.

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War of the Worlds has been both popular and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, radio dramas, a record album, various comic book adaptations, a number of television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors.

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3.

War Of The Worlds discovers the Martians have assembled towering three-legged "fighting-machines", each armed with a heat-ray and a chemical weapon: the poisonous "black smoke".

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4.

War Of The Worlds later taught science, and his first book was a biology textbook.

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5.

War Of The Worlds joined the scientific journal Nature as a reviewer in 1894.

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6.

War Of The Worlds suggests that Mars, being an older world than the Earth, might have become frozen and desolate, conditions that might encourage the Martians to find another planet on which to settle.

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7.

War of the Worlds was generally received very favourably by both readers and critics upon its publication.

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8.

War Of The Worlds later expanded these ideas in the novels When the Sleeper Wakes, The War in the Air, and The World Set Free .

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9.

War of the Worlds was reprinted in the United States in 1927, before the Golden Age of science fiction, by Hugo Gernsback in Amazing Stories.

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10.

War of the Worlds has inspired seven films, as well as various radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, video games, a number of television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors.

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11.

Colin Morgan starred in The Coming of the Martians, a faithful audio dramatisation of Wells's 1897 novel, adapted by Nick Scovell, directed by Lisa Bowerman and produced in native 5.

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