Really putting the "series" in "serial" with this one. The Dalek Invasion of Earth was less a story and more a sequence of plot point set in a common location. The characters went to a place, did a thing, then moved on again. Not a bad way of doing things, but not necessarily a compelling one.

It was a very post-WWII work of fiction, a lot like Day of the Triffids if you've ever read that