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  2. The War of the Worlds (1953 film) - Wikipedia

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    The War of the Worlds (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 American science fiction thriller film directed by Byron Haskin, produced by George Pal, and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. It is the first of several feature film adaptations of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel of the same name.

  3. The War of the Worlds - Wikipedia

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    Librivox recording by Rebecca Dittman. Book 1, Chapter 1. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was written between 1895 and 1897, [2] and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann.

  4. List of works based on The War of the Worlds - Wikipedia

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    The War of the Worlds (1898) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells.It describes the memoirs of an unnamed narrator in the suburbs of Woking, Surrey, England, who recounts an invasion of Earth by an army of Martians with military technology far in advance to human science.

  5. The Massacre of Mankind - Wikipedia

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    From New York City in 1920, four people sail to England to meet with Walter Jenkins, the original author of the War of the Worlds story. Jenkins has seen signs that the Martians may be planning a second attack. They arrive to find London has become a totalitarian dystopia and the whole country is gearing up for war. Walter's brother, Frank, is ...

  6. Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds - Wikipedia

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    A sequel to H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, it was published in 1975. It is a pastiche crossover which combines H. G. Wells's 1897 extraterrestrial invasion story with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger characters. The book is composed of stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science ...

  7. Childhood's End - Wikipedia

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    Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke.The story follows the peaceful alien invasion [1] of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.

  8. War of the Worlds: The True Story - Wikipedia

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    Shawn Frances, critic of the film review site, You Won Cannes, praised the film writing, "Ever since the 1953 movie adaptation of War of the Worlds there have been numerous other translations of Wells' novel, even a 1988 short-lived TV series, but of all the ones I have seen the only two—yes, only two—I find worthy of repeated viewings is ...

  9. War of the Worlds: New Millennium - Wikipedia

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    War of the Worlds: New Millennium is a science fiction novel by Douglas Niles, released in 2005 by Tor Books. After the most recent uncrewed mission to Mars inexplicably fails, interest in the Red Planet is still high. The whole world watches as a bright spot of light appears daily on the Martian surface.