H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Hines film) actual invasion from Mars that night. We are approaching the story in the same way, as if it were an actual news documentary". H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Hines film) H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (a.k.a. The Classic War of the Worlds or just War of the Worlds) is the first of three reworked direct-to-video film versions, first appearing in 2005, that adapts H. G. Wells' novel of the same name about a Martian invasion of southern England. This version, noted for its faithfulness to Wells's novel, was produced by the independent film company
Martian (The War of the Worlds) articles in "ERBZine", the official Burroughs fanzine. In Ian McDonald's short story "The Queen of Night's Aria", a sequel to "The War of the Worlds" published in the 2013 George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois anthology "Old Mars", the Wells Martians are named the Uliri. Martian (The War of the Worlds) Little about the Martians is definitive, the story being told by a first-person narrator. The Martians are described as octopus-like creatures: the "body" consisting of a disembodied head nearly across, having two eyes; a v-shaped, beak-like mouth; and two branches each of eight 'almost whip-like' tentacles, grouped around