The War of the Worlds

From The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project

The War of the Worlds is a novel written by H. G. Wells in 1898 depicting an alien invasion of the earth, and is often regarded as being the first to depict such a disaster. Since then, The War of the Worlds has entered popular culture, with a vast number of books, films, TV series and comic books using themes from this book, whether acknowledged or not. Adaptations have tended to move the date of the invasion but the basic theme has remained the same. 2005 witnessed a noticeable rise of interest in the story with the release of three different film adaptations, several DVDs, and re-release of the popular musical interpretation, as well as a number of comics and books related to the original story.

Contents 1 Adaptations of The War of the Worlds 2 See also 3 External links 4 Copyright

Adaptations of The War of the Worlds

In chronological order:

• The War of the Worlds, the original novel.
• The War of the Worlds, the controversial Orson Welles radio play.
• The War of the Worlds, the 1953 movie.
• Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, the 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne.
• War of the Worlds, a television program that ran from 1988 to 1990.
• The War of the Worlds, an arcade game.
• Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds, a 1998 computer game based on the Jeff Wayne album.
• H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, a 2005 movie directed by Timothy Hines.
• H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, a 2005 movie directed by David Michael Latt.
• War of the Worlds, a 2005 movie directed by Steven Spielberg.

See also

• Black smoke
• Heat-Ray
• Red weed
• HMS Thunder Child
• Tripod

External links

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• Text of Wells's novel at The Online Books Page
• Eve of the War - The War of the Worlds Website
• Eve of the War - Devoted to the H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
• The New War of the Worlds film by Spielberg and Cruise
• The Complete War of the Worlds Web Site
• The War of the Worlds Invasion: the historical perspective
• War of the Worlds Online
• War of the Worlds: the RPG
• War of the Worlds Movies.info

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Note: This book's Copyright date (1987) was "modified" by the publicist to appear to be Copyrighted in 1985, so catalog data should be cross-checked.

Copyright

"Original data received from Wikipedia on April 21, 2006. Credit given to original authors can be seen Here."