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 (radio drama) the adaptation, with a copy of his script being made into a paperback book enjoying large printings and an album of the broadcast selling over 500,000 copies, part of the income also going to him as copyright owner." The book, "The Panic Broadcast", was first published in 1970. The best-selling album was a sound recording of the broadcast titled "Orson Welles' War of the Worlds", "released by arrangement with Manheim Fox Enterprises, Inc." The source discs for the recording are unknown. Welles told Peter Bogdanovich that it was a poor-quality recording taken off the air at the time of broadcast