![]() Google's "mystery" appears to be causing similar excitement online today. The War of the Worlds has been adapted for television, film – in a number of versions, the most recent starring Tom Cruise – and radio: Orson Welles's 1938 adaptation caused mass panic in America when listeners took the fictional story at face value. Others point out that today in 1985 a Surrey family apparently saw a UFO on nearby Bagshot Heath. Twitter users point out that the birthday of Wells – also the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau – is just six days away, on 21 September, and believe the logo could be a "lead-up" to the anniversary, when Wells would have been 143 years old. Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance." "A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air. As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather," Wells wrote. From nearly two hundred centres, and every week added to their number. That something turns out to be Martians, and hostile "A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946) was an. ![]() ![]() "'It's a cylinder – an artificial cylinder, man! And there's something inside … '" "'It's out on Horsell Common now,'" Wells has one character exclaim. ![]()
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