A Martian's Point of View

Even if you've never read the book, seen the movie, or heard the radio broadcast, you've likely heard of The War of the Worlds. It's told from the perspective of one man who survives the apocalypse of martian attack, and though he is by no means the only one, most people that he meets are killed by the martians at some point or another. The problem is that the point of view tells us that the martians are bloodthirsty demons with no principles. Yet how are we to know that's true? As the reader, we are left with little to no actual evidence of the reasoning behind believing that the martians are evil apart from the fact that they try to eliminate the human race, which, I might add, is one thing we could even say about ourselves sometimes.

So get this. How about a War of the Worlds from the point of view of one of the martians? They came to Earth, and though they started the hostilities, they clearly didn't expect any fight back, which was something they got in parts of the book (but to be honest, the martians did most of the dominating). How would the book sound if it were told by a martian? We might get a completely different argument from this, such as the reason why the martians came in the first place. Perhaps they had a legitimate reason for invading the third rock from the sun.