The War of the Worlds
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The War of the Worlds
| Author | H. G. Wells |
|---|---|
| Published | 1898 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | H. G. Wells’s Martians land in the Home Counties, and within days the most powerful empire on earth is a column of refugees on the road out of London — told as first-person reportage, with no heroics and an ending that turns on biology. Written at the peak of British imperialism, it is an account of what colonisation feels like from underneath, addressed to the people doing the colonising. |
The War of the Worlds
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in Sci-fi — Classics, A tier, under Wells’s selected works, noting that it “was written at the peak of British imperialism.” I’ve already read The Time Machine, the first of the four Wells titles on that list.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — where this is listed, in the classics tier.
- H. G. Wells — the author; Kyle’s existing page reads him through a Darwinian lens.
- The Time Machine — the Wells Kyle has read.
- The Invisible Man (Wells) — the third Wells title on the list.
- The Island of Doctor Moreau — the fourth.
- Dystopia — Wells’s stories, as a16z put it, “usually ended badly.”
- Science Fiction — the genre he is credited with fathering.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.