The Martian Passport Watch is that type of device ... you need to be holding your camera on some tripod, because you’ll need your other hand to trigger the watch button. A “leash” mode ...

HG Wells, one of the founders of science fiction, was born 150 years ago this week (September 21). Here we tell his most famous story. During the 18 months he lived in Woking, Wel ...

In the novel, the unnamed protagonist discovers that Martians have assembled towering three-legged "fighting-machines", each armed with a heat-ray and a chemical weapon - the poisonous "black smoke".