Who wrote 'The War of the Worlds'?

H. G. Wells wrote 'The War of the Worlds'.

First published in 1898, the novel describes an invasion of Earth by technologically advanced beings from Mars. Its narrator witnesses the destruction of towns and the collapse of familiar institutions as humans struggle to understand and survive the attack. The story is one of the earliest major works of science fiction to portray a conflict between humanity and extraterrestrial invaders.

Wells wrote the novel between 1895 and 1897, and it was first serialized in Pearson's Magazine in the United Kingdom and Cosmopolitan in the United States. The complete book was published by William Heinemann in 1898. Wells's scientific training and interest in evolution helped shape the novel's themes about adaptation, technology, and humanity's vulnerability.

A famous 1938 radio adaptation directed and narrated by Orson Welles caused public alarm, but Orson Welles was not the author. Jules Verne wrote other pioneering science-fiction adventures, while Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke belonged to a later generation of writers.