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<i>The War of the Worlds</i>: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Square Dance

H.G. Wells

An alien spacecraft flies through a city in The War of the Worlds (1953)

The War of the Worlds: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Square Dance

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Anthony Hopkins as Odin in Thor: Ragnarok

Anthony Hopkins Is Likely to Get Creepy in the H.G. Wells-Inspired Eyes in the Trees

Scene from The War of the Worlds (2019, BBC): an alien tripod looms over a church tower and a human figure.

The Timely “Why” of The War of the Worlds — From Wells and Welles to Pal and Spielberg

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Photo of the earth taken from space.

Five SF Earths With More Than One Indigenous Intelligent Species

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Detail from the cover of Weird Tales November 1925 issue

To Life! But in a Bad Way: H.G. Wells’s “The Stolen Body”

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Six Authors Who’ve Successfully Adapted Their Own Work

Photo of a display at a vegetable market

Food, Glorious Food! Five SF Approaches to a Balanced Diet

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Feed Me, Seymour: H.G. Wells’ “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid”

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Jo Walton’s Reading List: June 2022

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Five Works Featuring Truly Alien Versions of Earth

Stranger Than Sci-Fi: How Science Nudges Fiction Into New Frontiers

Screenshot: BBC One

Paramount Is Developing a Very Vague H.G. Wells Movie

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