On 101st south of Rockaway Boulevard, the silent Martian tripod war machine surveyed the small town just before blasting it with a Heat-Ray. (It’s actually a water tower associated with the building ...

The original novel begins with the unnamed narrator (an astronomer) who, with several other colleagues and associates, observe "bright flashes" on the surface of Mars. This is soon followed (a few ...

The controversial depiction of a War of the Worlds machine on a Royal Mint design was actually an artistic choice. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

The two-pound coin from the Royal Mint features imagery from Wells’s books. But fans noted that the writer’s Martian tripods have three legs, not four. By Johnny Diaz The idea was to create a ...