A bold, contemporary reimagining of H.G.Wells’ classic novel. When astrophysicists detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with baited breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out; just pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. This is a story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances but they are more than just victims in a brutal war. For as we will come to realize, the aliens’ savage attack on earth is not arbitrary. Instead its causes are unfolding before our very eyes...