About the book: 1964 / The image of the coming world war and the unprecedented world upheaval associated with it - obviously haunted Wells, because he returns to this topic more than once . The Martians were ahead of man in technology - and their projectiles - “having hit the ground, broke and released whole clouds of heavy, black smoke, which first rose upward in a thick cloud, and then fell and slowly spread around the ground. And one touch of this creeping jet, one inhalation of this gas, brought death to all living things.” Where does this come from? From a science fiction novel written 20 years ago - or from some newspaper of 1915-16, when the Germans first used their asphyxiating gases? And again the world war - in the novel "In the Days of the Comet" - and the prediction that this war will end a radical revolution in human psychology will end with a fraternal unification of people. “H.G. Wells” - E. I. Zamyatin 1922