Book 1
the first cylinder's landing site
Horsell Common
The cylinder that fell on top of the house the narrator and curate were taking refuge in
The Fifth Cylinder
The one who you see the perspective off throughout most of the book
The Narrator
100 foot tall three legged machines that appear to be boilers on stilts and/or being situated on a milking stool.
The Fighting Machine
the author of the original book
Herbert George Wells
The primary weapon the martians use against humanity's weapons
The Heat Ray
Where the artilleryman was when the narrator found him
Putney Hill
This character disappears early on and is suddenly revealed to be alive at the end.
The Narrator's Wife
A flat, disk like craft that floats through the air dispersing the black smoke
The Flying Machine
The planet where the invader's are from, once thought to be habitable but is now confirmed to be barren
Mars
The chapter where the fighting machines first appear
Chapter 10 - In The Storm
The Jeff Wayne musical song that shortened half of the second book into a 12 minute song
Brave New World
We see the perspective of this character as he leaves Britain for France.
The Narrator's Brother
A crab-like machine that help build the fighting machines, it also collects humans in the Jeff Wayne musical
The Handling Machine
The British county in which the evens of the book take place
Surrey
the royal navy vessel that successfully destroyed two fighting machines at the river Blackwater.
HMS Thunder Child
The city a majority of the martians died at
London
The Narrator hits him in the back of the head with a meat cleaver, only for the martians to kill him.
The Curate
Not from the original book, these machines use magnetic rays to support them as they do not have physical legs
The War Machine
The director of the well known 2005 adaptation
Steven Spielburg
The street that the heat ray destroyed as the narrator escaped the first cylinder.
The Chobham Road
The invention the martians skipped in their technological evolution
The Wheel
He proposes that humanity constructs an underground civilization until they can fight the martians.
The Artilleryman
The Digging Machine
A fictional character from the Jeff Wayne musical who is supposedly the wife of the currate
Beth