The Martian War

"The Martian War: A Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent Invasion As Reported by Mr. H.G. Wells" is a 2006 science fiction novel by Kevin J. Anderson (under his Gabriel Mesta pseudonym). It is a retelling of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds"; similar to Anderson's past work, "", it recounts the Martian invasion from a variety of viewpoints, and ties into Wells' other work.

In the book, Wells himself is the main character, who witnesses the Martian attack alongside his fiancé Jane, Thomas Huxley, and Percival Lowell. The British government brings them together with Dr. Moreau and Hawley Griffin, who help develop a strain of cholera to be used against the Martians. Wells travels to the Moon to help free the Selenites, who have been enslaved by the Martians, before joining forces to end the Martian menace once and for all.

The premise bears a deal of similarity to the earlier "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II": both involve a group of literary figures being brought together by a secret agency of the British government to fight Wells' Martians; both end the invasion by using a biological weapon produced by Dr. Moreau, and "The Martian War" uses the same first name given to the Invisible Man by the creators of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. II" (in the original book, the Invisible Man had no first name; "LOEG" author Alan Moore gave him the first name 'Hawley' as a reference to Hawley Crippen). Anderson had previously written the novelization of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film.