The War of the Worlds: Three Ages of Fear
What happens when civilization discovers that it isn’t nearly as secure as it thought?
In this feature edition of The Common Room, we follow The War of the Worlds across more than half a century of storytelling: from H. G. Wells’s original 1898 novel, through Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre’s legendary 1938 radio broadcast, to the 1955 Lux Radio Theatre production starring Dana Andrews.
The Martians remain. Almost everything else changes.
For Wells, the invasion descends upon the confident world of Victorian Britain, turning the experience of empire back upon the imperial power itself…
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