 "The War of the Worlds" was reprinted in the United States in 1927, a year after the Golden Age of Science Fiction was created by Hugo Gernsback in "Amazing Stories".John W. Campbell, another key editor of the era, and periodic short story writer, published several alien invasion stories in the 1930s.Many well-known science fiction writers were to follow, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Clifford Simak, plus Robert A. Heinlein who wrote "The Puppet Masters" in 1953.