 It was not widely read, and consequently Wells' vastly more successful novel is generally credited as the seminal alien invasion story.Wells had already proposed another outcome for the alien invasion story in "The War of the Worlds".When the Narrator meets the artilleryman the second time, the artilleryman imagines a future where humanity, hiding underground in sewers and tunnels, conducts a guerrilla war, fighting against the Martians for generations to come, and eventually, after learning how to duplicate Martian weapon technology, destroys the invaders and takes back the Earth.