War of the Worlds is the classic tale of Martian invasion. The Narrator begins by reintroducing Earth as a fertile oasis in the vast expanse of nothing and its inhabitants as, “transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.” He then introduces Mars as an old planet, close to its end. Its inhabitants plot to invade Earth. Ten cylinders from space then fall from the sky and land in scattered areas around Great Britian. This is where we find our Narrator near the beginning of the book… staring at one of these great cylinders that has just landed in the woods surrounding his town.