The War of the Worlds presents itself as a factual account of the Martian invasion. The narrator is a middle-class writer of philosophical papers. Following explosions seen on the surface of planet Mars, creating much interest in the scientific community, a meteor lands on Horsell Common, near the unnamed narrator's home in Woking, Surrey. He is among the first to discover that the object is an artificial cylinder that opens... | The War of the Worlds by H G Wells, Paperback | Indigo Chapters