H.G. Wells is so well known that you don't have to bother reading his books, you already know them, except you don't. I rather ashamedly had never actually read an H.G. Wells novel until a week ago. That all changed and I'm a better person for it.

Corrections:

The tedious Brit drama is of course Downton Abbey

The album is by Jeff Wayne not Jeff Lynne (easy mistake)

There was a movie of War of the Worlds from 1953 but the album is a fictional soundtrack as suspected

Most the science I expound on is at least slightly wrong