Six weeks after publication of the novel, The Boston Post newspaper published another alien invasion story, an unauthorized sequel to The War of the Worlds, which turned the tables on the invaders. When the Narrator meets the artilleryman the second time, the artilleryman imagines a future where humanity, hiding underground in sewers and tunnels, conducts a guerrilla war, fighting against the Martians for generations to come, and eventually, after learning how to duplicate Martian weapon technology, destroys the invaders and takes back the Earth. Wells had already proposed another outcome for the alien invasion story in The War of the Worlds. However, there were stories of aliens and alien invasion prior to publication of The War of the Worlds. It is now seen as the seminal alien invasion story and Wells is credited with establishing several extraterrestrial themes which were later greatly expanded by science fiction writers in the 20th Century, including first contact and war between planets and their differing species. Wells published The War of the Worlds, depicting the invasion of Victorian England by Martians equipped with advanced weaponry. It was not widely read, and consequently Wells' vastly more successful novel is generally credited as the seminal alien invasion story. It describes a covert invasion by aliens who take on the appearance of human beings and attempt to develop a virulent disease to assist in their plans for global conquest. In 1892, Robert Potter, an Australian clergyman, published The Germ Growers in London. ![]() Martian war machines destroying an English town in H.
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