Facts about H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds

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   Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds caused widespread panic among listeners who believed a real Martian invasion was occurring.

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   Wells set H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds primarily in Surrey and London, drawing on the English countryside he knew from living in Woking.

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   In the novel, the Martian invaders are ultimately defeated not by human weapons but by Earth's bacteria, against which they have no immunity.

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   The novel was originally serialized in Pearson's Magazine in the United Kingdom before appearing as a book.

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   Published in 1898, H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest novels to depict an alien invasion of Earth.

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