War of the Worlds
Global Dispatches

This is a very good theme anthology with several outstanding stories. The idea was for then-contemporary science fiction authors to report on the Martian invasion that Wells and Welles popularized, but to do so in the voice of a famous person from that turn-of-the-century time. The authors included......more

War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches is an entertaining collection of short stories that are purportedly by historical figures who would have been alive to witness the landing of the Martians as described in Wells's The War of the Worlds. The stories are, of course, ghostwritten by current SF author......more

When I reviewed The War of the Worlds a while back I bemoaned the fact that the action was set in one small corner of England, and that there is little mention of what is happening in the rest of the world. This collection of short stories tries to rectify this by showing events from a wide variety......more

Anderson takes the topic of Martian invasion of Earth, and set out with other authors to write the stories as Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Jules Verne and many others would have imagined it. Teddy Roosevelt goes big-game hunting for Martians in Cuba. Albert Einstein gets captured......more

This is a brilliant idea for a book. What if H.G. Wells's "War of the Worlds" was not a novel, but journalism about an actual Martian invasion of the earth in 1898? How would the invasion have looked to other prominent writers of the time? Various contemporary science fiction authors were invited to......more