The War of the Worlds

The Martians invaded Earth because it was preferrable to Mars in every way. Earth's landscapes, oceans, and natural resources made it irresistable. They were envious of our home planet, and they intended to take it.

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.