The War of Worlds By: H.G. Wells

The horror starts on a quiet summer night, with a falling star...and then hundreds: ships filled with repulsive, super-intelligent monsters and war machines deadly beyond even the dreams of military science. The invaders don't want to trade, or talk, or enlighten: the only want to trample humanity beneath them, and take our world for their own. An we can't stop them.

Some call it the War of the Worlds, but it's not a war. It's a mass murder.

Goodreads: 3.83

Paperback, 1988