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War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches

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Due apparently to cold weather, Martians persist in Alaska after dying in the rest of the world - the story gives no hint if and when they were finally gotten rid of. As a result, London remains stuck in Alaska among trappers grimly struggling to survive under the Martians, and no indication if and
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The only story to give a brief glimpse of the Martians' own point of view (in this story, they are telepathic and can, if they want, communicate with humans) and it shows that they, too, think of themselves as The Good
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Texas is the only location on Earth where humans are shown succeeding in curtailing the Martian invasion, due especially to a plucky and highly resourceful middle-aged small town Sheriff. (Originally printed in
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Set in 1928, and recounts how the technology and lessons learned from the Martians have changed the world for the better, and how the humans are launching a counter-invasion of Mars
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China uses disarray of European powers to shake off colonial tutlelage and become world power 50 years ahead of schedule, remains a monarchy under the reform-minded
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In the 1990s, a literature student's graduate thesis argues that Dickinson witnessed the invasion even though she died 11 years before it happened. Won the 1997
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The Soul Selects her own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective
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In this story, Martians are divided into males and females, directly contradicting data in original Wells book but vital for plotline here
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The Martian invasion causes the people of the world to finally unite as one, and a central government, The Council of Earth, is created.
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Gandhi makes India independent 50 years ahead of schedule, Kipling becomes resigned to the end of the British Empire
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After reconstruction from Martian ravages, in which Tolstoy has key role, Russia becomes a stable
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becomes author of "The War of the Worlds", later style and literary career substantially affected
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Several of the stories tie into other works of fiction; Anderson would also later go on to write
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Paris, France (substantially different from Daniel Marcus' account for the same city)
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The young Picasso paints Martians, his later artistic style substantially influenced
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Małpy Pana Boga--Słowa: szkice i rozmowy o wyobraźni i rzeczywistości, polemiki
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fight Wells' Martians, who in this depiction are only one of many races on Mars
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England (same invasion as in original Wells book, from a different viewpoint)
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invasion and the impact of the invasion on a different part of the world.
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Lowell's Sahara project in this story is historically associated with
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The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic
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Pulitzer killed by Martians before having had a chance to endow the
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when he went back to California and took up his literary career.
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
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Index

To Mars and Providence

Roger Dean
Tim White
science fiction
anthology
Kevin J. Anderson
Bantam Spectra
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
Martian
The Martian War
Gary K. Wolfe
Locus
Stephen Baxter
Interzone
Asimov's Science Fiction
Don D'Ammassa
Science Fiction Chronicle
Thomas A. Easton
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Brian M. Thomsen
Dragon Magazine
Crypt of Cthulhu
Absolute Magnitude
Maciej Parowski
Tiedemann
Wolverton
Stephen Baxter
The Massacre of Mankind

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