Alamosa Public Library assembled this set of book, movie, and audiobook to promote an enhanced experience of books and their adaptations. In this set, the book tells the original story and gives you all the character development and backstory. The movie brings the classic tale to life.and the audiobook presents a verbal imagining of the narrative.

Actors in the film are: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Tim Robbins.

Audiobook narrated by: Christopher Hurt

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.

The film follows an American dock worker who is forced to look after his children, from whom he lives separately, as he struggles to protect them and reunite them with their mother when extraterrestrials invade the Earth and devastate cities with giant war machines.