H G Wells

War of the Worlds H G Wells

The fables devised by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), one of the fathers, perhaps the most notable, of science fiction, have demonstrated over time to maintain a vigor and touch some springs of the human unconscious that have often elevated them to icons of the modern world . The War of the Worlds (1898), a fast-paced story that narrates the invasion of Earth by the Martians and that for the first time involved the irruption of beings from other planets in ours, largely marked the fantasy of the 20th century and opened a The reef -that of the contact of men with extraterrestrial beings- which soon became one of the most important in science fiction, serving as inspiration to many later artists in the fields of radio, cinema, literature, and comics. and television.