02 // Timewarp Shoyu
The Alert
8:47 p.m. An emergency alert buzzes every phone in Woking at once. Nobody runs. Then the black metal starts to flow.
Source and rights
- Source
- The War of the Worlds
- Creator
- H. G. Wells
- Published
- 1898
- Premiere window
- Nov 27, 2026 · 5 min
A work of fiction. Nothing in this video happened. Built from the 1898 novel. The 1938 broadcast and later films are not the source.
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