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Author Title Publisher Year Published Notes
Anderson, Kevin J. War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches. New York: Bantam / Spectra 1996 274 pgs. 1st ed. Engaging anthology of mostly original short stories, a number of which appeared in the January 1996 issue of Asimov’s. Stories of Well’s Martian Invasion, many concerning or through the eyes of famous people from the late 19th century. includes the stories:
"The Roosevelt Dispatches" Mike Resnick, "Canals in the Sand" Kevin J. Anderson
"Foreign Devils" Walter Jon Williams, "Blue Period" Daniel Marcus, "The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry james" Robert Silverberg, "The True Tale of the Final Battle of Umslopogaas the Zulu" Janet Berliner, "Night of the Cooters" Howard Waldrop
"Determinism and the Martian War, with Relativistic Corrections" Doug Beason, "Soldier of the Queen" Barbara Hambly, "Mars: the Home Front" George Alec Effinger
"A Letter from St. Louis" Allen Steele, "Resurrection" Mark W. Tiedemann, "Paris Conquers All" Gregory Benford and David Brin, "To Mars and Providence" Don Webb, "Roughing It During the Martian Invasion" Daniel Keys Moran and Jodi Moran, "To See the World End" M. Shayne Bell, "After a Lean Winter" Dave Wolverton, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: a Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickenson's Poems: a Wellsian Perspective" Connie Willis, and "Afterword: Retrospective" Gregory Benford and David Brin.
Anderson, Kevin J. War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches. New York: Bantam 1997 1st paperback edition. Engaging anthology of mostly original short stories, a number of which appeared in the January 1996 issue of Asimov’s. Stories of Well’s Martian Invasion, many concerning or through the eyes of famous people from the late 19th century. includes the stories:
"The Roosevelt Dispatches" Mike Resnick, "Canals in the Sand" Kevin J. Anderson
"Foreign Devils" Walter Jon Williams, "Blue Period" Daniel Marcus, "The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry james" Robert Silverberg, "The True Tale of the Final Battle of Umslopogaas the Zulu" Janet Berliner, "Night of the Cooters" Howard Waldrop
"Determinism and the Martian War, with Relativistic Corrections" Doug Beason, "Soldier of the Queen" Barbara Hambly, "Mars: the Home Front" George Alec Effinger
"A Letter from St. Louis" Allen Steele, "Resurrection" Mark W. Tiedemann, "Paris Conquers All" Gregory Benford and David Brin, "To Mars and Providence" Don Webb, "Roughing It During the Martian Invasion" Daniel Keys Moran and Jodi Moran, "To See the World End" M. Shayne Bell, "After a Lean Winter" Dave Wolverton, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: a Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickenson's Poems: a Wellsian Perspective" Connie Willis, and "Afterword: Retrospective" Gregory Benford and David Brin.
Chandler, A. Bertram. The Alternate Martians New York: Ace 1965 1st edition, paperback. Published in Ace double M-129 with the author's Empress of Outer Space. Cover by Jerome Podwill. An earth expedition finds themselves on Mars where the different visions of Wells, Burroughs, and Kline are represented.
Priest, Christopher. The Space Machine : a Scientific Romance. London: Faber and Faber 1976 1st UK edition, hardcover. A man and a woman are mystically transported to Mars before they launch the invasion in Wells' book. The story goes from there.
Priest, Christopher. The Space Machine : a Scientific Romance. New York: Harper Collins 1976 1st US hardcover edition. A man and a woman are mystically transported to Mars before they launch the invasion in Wells' book. The story goes from there.
Smith, George H. The Second War of the Worlds. New York: DAW 1976 1st edition, paperback. The Martians are back, prepared for bacteria and with human allies.
Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris [Strugatski]. introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. translated by Gary Kern. Second Invasion From Mars New York: Collier 1979 1st edition, trade paperback. "New Science Fiction from Russia". Published with Far Rainbow. First published in 1968. Martians take over the Earth as purchasing agents after thir Wellsian invasion failure.
Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds. London: Heinemann 1898 1st edition, hardcover. Original state has 16 p. of ads at end. Originally published in the British magazine Pearsons, April - December, 1897 and the American magazine Cosmopolitan, January - December, 1897. One of the foundations of Martian science fiction.
Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds. New York: Harper 1898 1st US edition, hardcover. Published after the British edition. Originally published in the British magazine Pearsons, April - December, 1897 and the American magazine Cosmopolitan, April - December, 1897. One of the foundations of Martian science fiction.
Wells, H.G., with Introduction and Notes David Y. Hughes and Harry M. Geduld. A Critical Edition of War of the Worlds: H.G. Wells's Scientiic Romance. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press 1993 Hardcover. Extensive notes, comments, and appendices relating to the novel. Originally published in the British magazine Pearsons, April - December, 1897 and the American magazine Cosmopolitan, January - December, 1897. One of the foundations of Martian science fiction.

 

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