The War of the Worlds a faithful audio dramatisation of H. G. Wells' classic 1897 story, directed by Lisa Bowerman and adapted by Nick Scovell, will be released in July 2018 by Sherwood Sound Studios as a Collector's USB Edition, Limited Edition DVD, 2-Disc CD and Download format. It will be produced in native 5.1 surround sound. There is also a novel adaptation, set in Victorian Britain of 1898 about HMS "Thunder Child", called "The Last Days of Thunder Child" by C.A. Powell. The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first
The War of the Worlds 1900 echo scientific ideas of the time, including Pierre-Simon Laplace's nebular hypothesis, Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, and Gustav Kirchhoff's theory of spectroscopy. These scientific ideas combined to present the possibility that planets are alike in composition and conditions for the development of species, which would likely lead to the emergence of life at a suitable geological age in a planet's development. By the time Wells wrote "The War of the Worlds" there had been three centuries of observation of Mars through telescopes. Galileo in 1610 observed the planet's phases, and in 1666 Giovanni Cassini identified the polar ice