This was this months pick for the Dystopian Novels Book Club. I really thought I had already read this, but if that’s the case it was long enough ago that I didn’t really remember the details.
I like that humanity was able to destroy one of the tripods and kill the Martian inside, I think that would be replaced with a section showing how earth weapons were entirely useless against the Martians if it was written today. I also liked that the Martians died through luck, rather than some plucky human hero. The way they died has clear parallels with history as well, such as the Aztecs having no resistance to smallpox during the Spanish conquest.
The story was written basically as a series of vignettes, there’s not a large amount of plot or character development. It’s two characters viewing the progress of the Martian invasion. I particularly liked the section with the artilleryman near the end planning his resistance in the sewers, and then the realisation that he’s just a dreamer.