Wells later noted that inspiration for the plot was the catastrophic effect of European colonisation on the Aboriginal Tasmanians, and some historians have argued that Wells wrote the book in part to encourage his readership to question the morality of imperialism. The book's plot was similar to numerous works of invasion literature which were published around the same period, and has been variously interpreted as a commentary on the theory of evolution, British colonialism, and Victorian-era fears, superstitions and prejudices. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. It is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Wells, written between 18, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H.
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