In early twentieth-century London, orphaned sixteen-year-old Gilbert, pulled from his factory job to write a news story about meteors, finds himself facing invaders from Mars and also learning of a sinister conspiracy related to his own past.

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Sixteen-year-old Gilbert Chesterton is orphaned and friendless, stuck working a menial job in grimy turn-of-the-century London. Then one night strange lights fill the sky, and a hail of giant meteors crashes into a field outside the city. The next day Gilbert is amazed to find himself hired by a newspaper and rushed out to investigate the scene. Is it a harmless natural phenomenon, or the first wave of a Martian invasion?

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