About this audiobook
“The War of the Worlds” by Herbert Wells is a fundamental science fiction novel that has become the standard of the genre of stories about alien invasion and has forever changed the idea of humanity about its place in the Universe. From them are chosen deadly alien on giant three-foot battle trains, armed with heat rays and poisonous "black smoke."The unprepared humanity with its advanced for that time technology is absolutely impotent to the technological superiority and misery of the Mars. The main character becomes a witness to the falling world order, panic, the escape of millions of people and the complete collapse of human civilization in the face of an invisible and miserable threat. Wells, with deep psychoscience and imperfect realism, recreates the atmosphere of total catastrophe, raising eternal questions about the fragility of human culture, the nature of evolution and survival. **About what the book is in three words:** Mars, Invasion, Disaster. **Who to read:** Fans of classical science fiction and stories about alien civilizations, lovers of tensive stories about survival in the conditions of the global apocalypse, as well as all lovers of Herbert Wells’ prophetic prose.
