WAR OF THE WORLDS! ~Classics Review~

Let's talk about the scifi/literary classic #waroftheworlds!

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[DanielGreeneReviews]

What’s your favorite sci-fi classic? I want some recs :)

[Macapta]

Maybe if this book came with a map Daniel could learn UK geography.

Boy loves his maps.

[Luka-]

This is a wonderful classic to review, and when you factor in the book is 125 years old and still holds up to modern scifi books it really makes you appreciate the ideas presented within it and how much they influenced science fiction going forward

[soaney]

I actually live in Woking, where the book is set. I walk past HG Wells' house all the time, the same house the main character lives in the book, to go to the station. The same route the main character goes on to get his paper. We have a HG Wells conference centre, an enormous tripod statue in a square, and a bronze statue of HG Wells sitting in the time machine!

[olafsomething]

My dad made me listen to the 1978 musical adaptation of the story when I was 10 years old and I war traumatized. Didn't dare to go to bed by myself for a year at least. Never read the original book though, might check it out now

[geraldb]

For lots of people in my gen. War of the Worlds meant Jeff Wayne's musical adaption of 1977. Well worth a listen for this classic album. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to 1 that's what he said.

[Macapta]

Talking about this book is like talking about the scene in Lord of the Rings where Aragorn kicks the helmet.

Basically a mad dash to who can say the fun bit of well known trivia about it. In this case, the myth about the panic caused by the radio show.

[LordJazzly]

Huh. I always thought Wells's 'blank' protagonists were much more the 'anonymous reporter' type of protagonist than self-inserts - made to give the illusion that the story was being relayed to the audience via newspaper or radio broadcast, or one of those longer-form periodicals that you'd used to get. Verne did similar.

[andreas.a.]

If we want to point at a literary work that could count as the first SCI-FI book, I would say that is "A True Story" by Lucian Samosata written in 2nd century...

It is about visiting the moon and different planets inhabeted by aliens and fighting in an intergalactic war...

[koboldmartian]

I remember reading this book as a kid and genuinely being afraid and scared that this would happen and I had a nightmare about it! It wasn't until I kept reading where I saw the book had an illustration on what the aliens looked like (after they perished) where my fear went out the window because I laughed so hard at how stupid they looked.

Still an interesting and fun book though

[boobootittleman]

Love that you’re covering Wells’ work! He’s my absolute favorite author.

[miller]

Imagine if it was goblins instead of puny aliens

[alexm-e]

The disco-opera of the war of the worlds is brilliant and funny and made me cry like a little bitch with the song Farewell Thunderchild 😅😂

[jessehughes]

As a non-Manga reader, I have missed this kind of review. Loved this!

[lukesittenauer]

I love that he is going back and reviewing the classics, potentially introducing new people to them

[david]

I love that you are doing some of the classics!

[TheHonourableFool]

I won't say it's a masterpiece because I think that's a more subjective term than most people will admit, but you should give Nnedi Okorafor's "Lagoon" a try. It's an alien invasion story told from a very non-western point of view while also shedding light on Nigerian people and culture. I was surprised how much I loved it!

[YoungMatt]

I was surprised by how excellent The Time Machine was when compared to other HG Wells' work. The ending especially I feel like was way ahead of it's time.

[lucianoquerido]

It's nice to see you giving us your thoughts on the classics. It's good to look back on classics some times.

[SirEriol]

Mexican singer Tatiana wrote an entire song about this book.

"Los marcianos llegaron ya, y llegaron bailando ricachá".

"Ricachá" is the way the most popular public domain translation dubbed the heat ray.