The War of the Worlds (novel)

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Influence

This theme of an alien invasion has remained a popular one ever since, some recent examples being Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, the "Worldwar" series by Harry Turtledove, and the film Independence Day. Tim Burton's farcical Mars Attacks! shares many themes with The War of the Worlds, particularly the unexpected and inglorious demise of the Martian invaders.

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Alien invasion - Footfall - Larry Niven - Jerry Pournelle - Worldwar - Harry Turtledove - Independence Day - Tim Burton - Mars Attacks!

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A number of people have written stories that pay homage to The War of the Worlds, often telling how the invasion went in places other than Britain.

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Two notable stories of this type are "Night of the Cooters" by Howard Waldrop, in which a Martian war machine lands in Texas, and "Foreign Devils" by Walter Jon Williams, set in China.

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Howard Waldrop - Walter Jon Williams

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War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, edited by Kevin J. Anderson, is an anthology of such stories (ISBN 0553103539).

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The idea of powered armor and huge walking, piloted war machines also originated in The War of the Worlds.

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Eric Brown wrote a short story, Ulla, Ulla, (2002) about an expedition to Mars, finding the truth behind H.G. Wells' novel.

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The Tripods is a sci-fi trilogy for young adults written between 1967 and 1968 by John Christopher. It depicts the Earth after it has been overcome by aliens in three-legged machines. Humanity has been enslaved, and the books focus on the struggle by some teenagers to free the world of alien domination.

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The Tripods - John Christopher - Alien

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Within six weeks of the novel's original 1897 magazine serialization, the New York Journal American began running a sequel, Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss, about an American counterattack against the Martians, spearheaded by Thomas Edison. The sequel debuted in the January 12 issue of the Journal American and ran until the February 10 issue. The sequel was published in book form in 1947, and an abridged version appeared in 1954 in The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics. In 1969, Forrest J. Ackerman published an edited version, called Invasion of Mars.

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1897 - New York Journal American - Thomas Edison - 1947 - 1954 - 1969 - Forrest J. Ackerman

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A French-Canadian author, Jean-Pierre Guillet, wrote a sequel to the book called "La Cage de Londres", which translated means "The Cage of London". After the aliens were defeated, they plotted revenge, and came back prepared to finally enslave humanity, and breed it for their bloody needs. The Cage of London is one of those breeding sites.

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In the comic version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the invasion by the Martians is told by the perspective of The League, who are instructed to contact Doctor Moreau so that they can unleash H-142, a biological weapon that is a hybrid of anthrax and streptococcus.

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Doctor Moreau - Biological weapon - Anthrax - Streptococcus

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In the novel W. G. Grace's Last Case by Willie Rushton, W. G. Grace and Dr. Watson avert a second Martian invasion by attacking the Martian fleet on the far side of the moon with "bombs" containing influenza germs.

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Willie Rushton - W. G. Grace - Dr. Watson

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In the 1970's, Marvel Comics had a character named Killraven Warrior of the Worlds who (in an alternate timeline) fought H. G. Wells' Martians after their second invasion of Earth. He first appeared in Amazing Adventures volume 2 #18.

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Marvel Comics - Killraven - Amazing Adventures

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In 1975, Manly Wade Wellman and his son Wade Wellman published Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds in which Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Professor Challenger experience the events described in the original H.G. Wells novel.

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Manly Wade Wellman - Dr. Watson - Professor Challenger

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