To Mars And Providence
''War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches'' is a 1996 science fiction anthology, edited by Kevin J. Anderson and published by American company Bantam Spectra. It is a tribute to H. G. Wells' 1898 novel ''The War of the Worlds''; each story envisions a famous individual's reactions to the Martian (War of the Worlds), Martian invasion and the impact of the invasion on a different part of the world. Several of the stories tie into other works of fiction; Anderson would also later go on to write ''The Martian War'', a novel that also presented Wells' Martian invasion from the viewpoints of Wells and several other fictional and historical characters. Reception The book has been reviewed by: * Gary K. Wolfe (1996) in ''Locus (magazine), Locus'', #424 May 1996 * Stephen Baxter (author), Stephen Baxter (1996) in ''Interzone (magazine), Interzone'', #109 July 1996 * Mark R. Kelly (1996) in ''Locus'', #428 September 1996 * Moshe Feder (1996) in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', September 199 ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]