The War of the Worlds: Next Century The War of the Worlds: Next Century The War of the Worlds: Next Century () is a 1981 Polish film by Piotr Szulkin which is inspired by the classical novel of H. G. Wells, "The War of the Worlds". It was immediately banned by the Polish government upon its release because it depicted political parallels with the political context of the country at that time. It only received its premiere on 20 February 1983. The film starts from the position close to the literary inspiration suggested in the title, but rather than developing it in the same manner as the
The War of the Worlds was first published in serial form in "Pearson's Magazine" in April – December 1897. Wells was paid £200 and Pearsons demanded to know the ending of the piece before committing to publish. The complete volume was published by William Heinemann in 1898 and has been in print ever since. Two unauthorised serialisations of the novel were published in the United States prior to the publication of the novel. The first was published in the "New York Evening Journal" between December 1897 and January 1898. The story was published as "Fighters from Mars or the War of the Worlds". It changed