At first, nobody seems to take much notice of the balls of fire heading from Mars to Earth. But the fireballs turn out to be spaceships filled with aliens from Mars! And when the Martians turn their terrible machines against the humans, it's all-out war. Can humankind survive? Or will the creatures from Mars take over the world?

At first, nobody seems to take much notice of the balls of fire heading from Mars to Earth. But the fireballs turn out to be spaceships filled with aliens from Mars! And when the Martians turn their terrible machines against the humans, it's all-out war. Can humankind survive? Or will the creatures from Mars take over the world? Arthur C. Clarke has long been considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time. Books by Clarke—both fiction and nonfiction—have sold more than a hundred million copies worldwide. He died in 2008.