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War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
War of the Worlds Global Dispatches
Author: Kevin J. Anderson (Editor)
The Martian Invasion! Accounts of the War of the Worlds as told from celebrity eyewitnesses all around the globe! —
  • Jules Verne reports on the Martian attacks on Paris
  • Teddy Roosevelt, big game hunter, goes after the most dangerous game…from another world.
  • Mark Twain recounts the Martians on the Mississippi.
    • ...  more »


And fourteen other imaginary reports from the front lines of the War of the Worlds, including H.P. Lovecraft, Winston Churchill, Pablo Picasso, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and others -- as written by some of the greatest names in modern science fiction.

Contents:

  • (H. G. Wells): Foreword (War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches) • essay by H. G. Wells
  • (Teddy Roosevelt): The Roosevelt Dispatches [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Mike Resnick
  • (Percival Lowell): Canals in the Sand [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Kevin J. Anderson
  • (Dowager Empress of China): Foreign Devils [War of the Worlds] (1996) / novelette by Walter Jon Williams
  • (Pablo Picasso): Blue Period [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Daniel Marcus
  • (Henry James): The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James [War of the Worlds] (1996) / novelette by Robert Silverberg
  • (Winston Churchill and H. Rider Haggard): The True Tale of the Final Battle of Umslopogaas the Zulu [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Janet Berliner
  • (Texas Rangers): Night of the Cooters [War of the Worlds] (1987) / short story by Howard Waldrop
  • (Albert Einstein): Determinism and the Martian War, with Relativistic Corrections [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Doug Beason
  • (Rudyard Kipling): Soldier of the Queen [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Barbara Hambly
  • (Edgar Rice Burroughs): Mars: The Home Front [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by George Alec Effinger
  • (Joseph Pulitzer): A Letter from St. Louis [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Allen Steele
  • (Leo Tolstoy): Resurrection [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Mark W. Tiedemann
  • (Jules Verne): Paris Conquers All [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Gregory Benford and David Brin
  • (H. P. Lovecraft): To Mars and Providence [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Don Webb
  • (Mark Twain): Roughing It During the Martian Invasion [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Daniel Keys Moran and Jodi Moran
  • (Joseph Conrad): To See the World End [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by M. Shayne Bell
  • (Jack London): After a Lean Winter [War of the Worlds] (1996) / novelette by Dave Wolverton
  • (Emily Dickinson): The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective [War of the Worlds] (1996) / short story by Connie Willis
  • (Jules Verne): Afterword: Retrospective (War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches) (1996) • essay by Gregory Benford and David Brin
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ISBN-13: 9780553575989
ISBN-10: 0553575988
Publication Date: 5/5/1997
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Bantam Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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