War of the Worlds. Wells G.

The beginning of the twentieth century, the English county of Sirrey. Large metal cylinders fall to the Earth one after another, from which strange octopotive creatures appear. Having gathered giant walking tripods, capable of moving at the speed of a courier train and equipped with generators of deadly heat rays and poisonous black smoke, strangers from Mars begin the systematic and ruthless capture of our planet... Herbert Wells’s novel “The War of Worlds” (1897), conceived by the writer (1897) (1897), conceived by the writer as another ( After the “Time Machine”) “The attack on human complacency” became a kind of literature matrix about an alien invasion, introduced fashion on the Martian theme in science fiction, and formed the commemorative radio -resistance of Orson Wells, which in October 1938 caused panic among Americans, and I gave rise to many film versions. In this publication, as an application to the text of the novel, an article by Wells “creatures that live on Mars” (1908), shedding additional light on what hypothetical inhabitants of the Red Planet, the author and some of its contemporaries imagined.