The War of the Worlds - The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
As the eerie silence of the English suburbs gives way to a night punctuated by extra-terrestrial terror, we plunge into what is recorded in the annals of science fiction as an iconic moment of first contact gone awry. We see the technological might of the Martian invaders brutally juxtaposed against the fragile normalcy of Victorian England. Wells, ever the social critic, seeks not merely to entertain, but to provoke thought, reflecting the anxieties and technological transformations of his ...