Voina mirov [War of the Worlds]

The beginning of the twentieth century, the English county of Surrey. Large metal cylinders fall one after another onto the Earth, from which strange octopus creatures emerge. Gathering 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, aliens from Mars begin a systematic and ruthless capture of our planet ... H.G. Wells's novel 'War of the Worlds', conceived by the writer as yet another (after 'Cars of the Worlds' time ')' attack on human complacency ', became a kind of matrix of literature on an alien invasion, introduced fashion on the Martian theme in science fiction, formed the basis of commemorative radio dramatization rsona Wells, which caused panic among Americans, and spawned numerous film versions in October 1938. In this edition, as an appendix to the text of the novel, Wells's article 'Creatures that inhabit Mars' is placed, shedding additional light on how the author and so