War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds is a 1898 novel by famous science fiction author H.G Wells. The plot consists of the Journalist/narrator, who in typical Wells fashion is never named due to it being a first person account.

As the narrator lives in Woking the story shifts to his Brother in London to show city perspective. After a cylinder from Mars lands in Woking, it produces a Martian with a heat ray that then attacks. The narrator takes his Wife to a safer place, he then returns to find the man responsible for transport, dead - and giant Tripod machines the Martians had built attacking people.

He then travels across the country desperately trying to survive the invasion force. Meeting characters such as the Artilleryman and the Curate. Eventually after many events, the Martians die from bacteria they have no resistance to, and the Narrator returns to his Wife.

Not only is it one of the earlier science fiction stories but the first to show Aliens coming to earth, successfully invading and then its infamous ending of them dying from Bacteria. Due to the story's natural publicity for its new ideas, it sparked many adaptations and spin offs, the most notable and inspiration to the WOTWMod include:

War of the Worlds - (1953 film, a very Modernised and Americanised telling of the story that lead to a spin off 1980s series. This version also included the Radio version by Orson Wells in its canon which is famous for the amount of people it fooled into believing Martians actually invaded but this may have been an exaggeration by the media who didn't like Orson)

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds - (1978 musical adaptation of the story keeping the setting but changing some key elements, the mod was first based of this, and this version also inspired some video games.)

War of the Worlds (2005 film adapted similarly to the 1953 version yet with some resemblance to the plot of the book with tripod designs that can be linked to the book)

The War of the Worlds (2019 3-part series, a very faithful starting adaption yet often disliked due to it's very untraditional ending.)