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Overview: H.G. Wells’s immortal novel The War of the Worlds describes an invasion from Mars through the fictional dispatches of a London newspaper reporter. Besides the struggle in England, the reporter mentions similar battles taking place all over the planet. Yet we have been able to see only one segment of the global catastrophe—until now.

In Providence, Rhode Island, an eight-year-old H.P. Lovecraft bravely seeks communion with an alien intelligence—and a return to his long-lost home. In Russia, a letter by Count Leo Tolstoy describes the coming of the ultimate revolution. In a dark woods outside of Zurich, a heroic Albert Einstein finds himself trapped inside a Martian craft, where survival itself is relative. In Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson leaves poetic evidence that she encountered the Martians eleven years after her death. In Paris, a young artist named Pablo Picasso is inspired by the Martian carnage to create his most shocking and disturbing masterpiece. From Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba to the Dowager Empress in China, we see our fellow humans encounter the Martian menace through the eyes of such luminaries as Henry James, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and others.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror

Created by Jerry eBooks from the 1st edition hardback book
Contents:
(Teddy Roosevelt) ”The Roosevelt Dispatches” (Mike Resnick)
(Percival Lowell) ”Canals in the Sand” (Kevin J. Anderson)
(Dowager Empress of China) ”Foreign Devils” (Walter Jon Williams)
(Pablo Picasso) ”Blue Period” (Daniel Marcus)
(Henry James) ”The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James” (Robert Silverberg)
(Winston Churchill and H. Rider Haggard) ”The True Tale of the Final Battle of Umslopogaas the Zulu” (Janet Berliner)
(Texas Rangers) ”Night of the Cooters” (Howard Waldrop)
(Albert Einstein) ”Determinism and the Martian War, with Relativistic Corrections” (Doug Beason)
(Rudyard Kipling) ”Soldier of the Queen” (Barbara Hambly)
(Edgar Rice Burroughs) ”Mars: The Home Front” (George Alec Effinger)
(Joseph Pulitzer) ”A Letter from St. Louis” (Allen Steele)
(Leo Tolstoy) ”Resurrection” (Mark W. Tiedemann)
(Jules Verne) ”Paris Conquers All” (Gregory Benford and David Brin)
(H. P. Lovecraft) ”To Mars and Providence” (Don Webb)
(Mark Twain) ”Roughing It During the Martian Invasion” (Daniel Keys Moran and Jodi Moran)
(Joseph Conrad) ”To See the World End” (M. Shayne Bell)
(Jack London) ”After a Lean Winter” (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 Perpsective” (Connie Willis)
(Jules Verne) Afterword: Retrospective (Gregory Benford and David Brin)​