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Tracy Gilmerwar of the worlds
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Andrew Terwilligersource #1
This article gives a clear overview of the history of the author all the way up to the writing of the novel to the radio broadcast and everything that follows.
"The War of the Worlds." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Jan. 2012. Web. 03 Oct. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds>. -
31 Mar 08
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Wells depicts the Martians firing spacecraft to Earth from a giant space gun, a common representation of space travel in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bearing similarity to the modern spacecraft propulsion concept of mass drivers.
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Military theorists of that era had many speculations of building a "fighting-machine" or "land dreadnought" (as the Royal Navy called this hypothetical machine on which some experiments were made just before the First World War). Wells's concept of the Martian tripods, fast-moving and equipped with Heat-Rays and black smoke, represents an ultimate end to these speculations, although Wells also presents a less fantastical depiction of the armoured fighting vehicle in his short story "The Land Ironclads". [1] [2]
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On a different field, the book explicitly suggests that the Martians' anatomy may reflect the far future development of mankind itself — i.e. that with the increasing development of machines, the body is largely discarded and what remains is essentially a brain that "wears" a different (mechanical) body for every need, just as humans wear the clothes appropriate to a particular weather or work.
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