Alien invasion

==Origins==

==Origins==

In 1898, Wells published ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'', depicting the invasion of [[Victorian era|Victorian England]] by Martians equipped with advanced weaponry. It is now seen as the seminal alien invasion story{{Cite book |last=Flynn |first=John L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0aCSs1-23sC&pg=PA18 |title=War of the Worlds: From Wells to Spielberg |date=2005 |publisher=Galactic Books |isbn=0-9769400-0-0 |pages=18–19}} and Wells is credited with establishing several extraterrestrial themes which were later greatly expanded by science fiction writers in the 20th century, including first contact and war between planets and their differing species. However, there were earlier published stories of aliens and alien invasion, such as the 1892 novel [The Germ Growers] by Australian clergyman Robert Potter, which describes a covert invasion by aliens who take on the appearance of human beings and attempt to develop a virulent disease to assist in their plans for global conquest. Potter's novel was not widely read. Another novel that predates ''The War of the Worlds'' is [[Two Planets]] by [[Kurd Lasswitz]] which deals with similar themes but the invaders are initially benevolent.

In 1898, Wells published ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'', depicting the invasion of [[Victorian era|Victorian England]] by Martians equipped with advanced weaponry. It is now seen as the seminal alien invasion story{{Cite book |last=Flynn |first=John L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0aCSs1-23sC&pg=PA18 |title=War of the Worlds: From Wells to Spielberg |date=2005 |publisher=Galactic Books |isbn=0-9769400-0-0 |pages=18–19}} and Wells is credited with establishing several extraterrestrial themes which were later greatly expanded by science fiction writers in the 20th century, including first contact and war between planets and their differing species. However, there were earlier published stories of aliens and alien invasion, such as the 1892 novel [[The Germ Growers]] by Australian clergyman Robert Potter, which describes a covert invasion by aliens who take on the appearance of human beings and attempt to develop a virulent disease to assist in their plans for global conquest. Potter's novel was not widely read. Another novel that predates ''The War of the Worlds'' is [[Two Planets]] by [[Kurd Lasswitz]] which deals with similar themes but the invaders are initially benevolent.

Wells had already proposed another outcome for the alien invasion story in ''The War of the Worlds''. When the Narrator meets the artilleryman the second time, the artilleryman imagines a future where humanity, hiding underground in sewers and tunnels, conducts a [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla war]], fighting against the Martians for generations to come, and eventually, after learning how to duplicate Martian weapon technology, destroys the invaders and takes back the Earth.{{cite book | last = Batchelor | first = John | author-link = John Batchelor | title = H.G. Wells | url = https://archive.org/details/hgwells0000batc | url-access = registration | page = [https://archive.org/details/hgwells0000batc/page/28 28] | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]| date = 1985 | isbn = 0-521-27804-X}}

Wells had already proposed another outcome for the alien invasion story in ''The War of the Worlds''. When the Narrator meets the artilleryman the second time, the artilleryman imagines a future where humanity, hiding underground in sewers and tunnels, conducts a [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla war]], fighting against the Martians for generations to come, and eventually, after learning how to duplicate Martian weapon technology, destroys the invaders and takes back the Earth.{{cite book | last = Batchelor | first = John | author-link = John Batchelor | title = H.G. Wells | url = https://archive.org/details/hgwells0000batc | url-access = registration | page = [https://archive.org/details/hgwells0000batc/page/28 28] | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]| date = 1985 | isbn = 0-521-27804-X}}