How it was written

Wells wrote The War of the Worlds while living in Woking, and used the real streets around him.

1. 
   1895

   A move to Woking

   Wells and Jane Robbins moved to a rented house in Maybury Road, Woking.

2. 
   1895

   Riding round the district

   He later said he cycled around marking down places and people for destruction by his Martians.

3. 
   1896

   A dark idea

   Wells said the plot was inspired by the terrible effect of European colonisation on the Aboriginal Tasmanians.

4. 
   1897

   A magazine serial

   It ran in Pearson's Magazine in Britain, from April to December 1897, and in Cosmopolitan in the United States.

5. 
   1898

   The book

   William Heinemann published the full novel in 1898.

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