Although the Martians are sluggish, they quickly demonstrate their immense technological superiority by massacring any humans who get in their way. Having witnessed the launching of the Martian spacecraft, the narrator becomes one of the first on the scene at the initial landing site, which happens to be quite close to his home. Book 1, which comprises about two thirds of the novel’s length, begins with the narrator reflecting on how unprepared and unsuspecting the world was before the invasion. The novel is divided into two books, each of which is subdivided into chapters. This study guide refers to the 2007 Signet Classics paperback edition. Welles posed the fictitious episode as a news broadcast and allegedly incited panic among listeners that Martians were invading. American director Orson Welles adapted The War of the Worlds and narrated the famous radio broadcast in 1938.
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