H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Hines film) the Martian invasion. The film bases its approach on the 1938 Orson Welles CBS radio Halloween broadcast of "War of the Worlds", by presenting itself as a true account of actual events. Director Timothy Hines said, in reference to this technique, "When Orson Welles broadcast "War of the Worlds" on the radio in the late 1930s, he presented it in such a way as to not clearly identify that it was a work of fiction. He did it for the drama. And many people mistook the fictional news broadcast as a real news broadcast. People believed they were hearing an
H. G. Wells (crater) crater valleys. This rugged surroundings intrudes only part way into the interior, while the remaining floor is relatively level and in some places gently rolling. The interior is marked only by a multitude of tiny craterlets. The writer H. G. Wells earned the right to have a Moon crater named after him by his well-known science fiction, including the novel "The First Men in the Moon". By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells (crater) H. G. Wells