Listen on Spotify ↗
This sequence moves from the uncanny arrival of the Martians through the collapse of familiar Victorian life and toward survival and uneasy recovery. Electronic pulses and stark orchestral textures evoke machinery, heat-rays, and the scale of the invasion, while the vocal songs trace the narrator’s isolation, the human cost, and the fragile return of hope.
Your reading session
Press play. Turn the page.
This player plays the saved playlist. Save your mix to listen to the replacements together.
Want a timer? Open the Reading Room for candlelit reading sprints with this soundtrack, a little ambience and a library card that tracks your pages, reading pace and daily streak. How reading sprints work.
Your changes aren't saved yet. Choose Save my mix to create your own Spotify playlist.
Track List
20 songs
1
Main Title
Leith Stevens · The War of the Worlds (Original Soundtrack) [1953]
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
2
Prologue
John Williams · War Of The Worlds (Music From The Motion Picture)
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
3
The Intersection Scene
John Williams · War Of The Worlds (Music From The Motion Picture)
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
4
The Eve Of The War
Jeff Wayne · Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
5
Forever Autumn
Jeff Wayne · Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
6
Alone in Kyoto
Air · Talkie Walkie
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
7
Alpha
Vangelis · Albedo 0.39
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
8
Pulstar
Vangelis · Synthesizer Greats, Vol. 3 (REMASTERED 2023)
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
9
The Robots
Kraftwerk · 3-D The Catalogue
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
10
Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares - Remastered 2018
Tangerine Dream · Phaedra (Deluxe Version)
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
11
Song of the Second Moon
Tom Dissevelt · Electronic Music
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
12
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Rick Wakeman · Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
13
Forever Autumn
Justin Hayward · All the Way
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
14
Space Oddity - 2015 Remaster
David Bowie · David Bowie (aka Space Oddity) [2015 Remaster]
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
15
Major Tom (Coming Home)
Peter Schilling · Fehler Im System
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
16
Planet Claire
The B-52's · B-52's
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
17
The Great Gig in the Sky
Pink Floyd · The Dark Side of the Moon
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
18
Eve Of Destruction
Barry McGuire · Eve Of Destruction
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
19
The End of the World
Skeeter Davis · Skeeter Davis: RCA Country Legend
Replaced in your draftPress play in Spotify to listen. Playback availability depends on Spotify.
Discover more
More playlists like this
Book soundtracks with a similar Science Fiction feel, ready for your next session.
Lights Out
by Navessa Allen
View soundtrack
Reverend Insanity 2 : The Demon Leaves The Mountain
by Gu Zhen Re
View soundtrack
Yesteryear
by Caro Claire Burke
View soundtrack
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
View soundtrack
The Talisman
by Stephen King, Peter Straub
View soundtrack
Harry Potter
by J. K. Rowling
View soundtrack