Brief review to be added of the novel “The War of the Worlds” (1898) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by H G Wells
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For discussion of Wells’ novel see the following:
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Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 4) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition. |
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Aldiss, Brian in his “Billion Year Spree” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-121, 130 (in Chapter 5) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition. |
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Alschuler, William in his “The Science of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 140 (in Chapter 7) of the |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)at pages 62, 69-70 (in Chapter 5) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Asimov, Isaac in “Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence : The First Encounter” (1976) (edited by James L Christian) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Of Life Beyond : Man’s Age-Old Speculations”) of the Prometheus Books softcover edition. |
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Bergreen, Laurence in his “The Quest For Mars” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145, 184 (in Chapter 7) of the Harper hardback edition. |
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Bizony, Piers in his “The Exploration of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in the Foreword) of the Aurum softcover edition. |
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Boyce, Chris in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23 (in the Prologue), 181 (in the Notes) of the David & Charles hardback edition, at pages 20-21, 170 of the 1980 revised NEL paperback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas E in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 329-330 (in an entry entitled “Mars and Martians”), 521 (in an entry entitled “Science fiction and UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 322, 510 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Bullard, Thomas E in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 398 (in an entry entitled “Mars and Martians”), 626 (in an entry entitled “Science fiction and UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Chambers, Paul in his “Life On Mars” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39 (in Chapter 3), 199 (in Chapter 15) of the Blandford hardback edition. |
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Clark, Stuart in his “Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 90 (in Chapter 7) of the Springer hardback edition. |
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Cohen, Jack and Stewart, Ian in their “Evolving the Alien” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2-3 (in Chapter 1), 46 (in Chapter 2) of the Ebury Press hardback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 370 (in the entry entitled “science fiction involving extraterrestrials, up to 1900”), 453-455 (in the entry entitled “War of the Worlds, The, novel”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “War of the Worlds, novel”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/W/WarofWorldsnovel.html |
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Davies, Paul in his “Are we Alone?“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 1) of the Penguin paperback edition. |
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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26 (in Chapter 2), 94 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sci-Fi, Hokum and Barry Who? - The Golden Age of Science Fiction Movies”), 89, 90, 91, 94, 95 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Shadows on the Sky - The Early Flying Saucer Era”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107, 112-116, 117 (in Chapter 4) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 224, 231-238 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 2) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter). |
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Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25-29 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Evans, Hilary in his “Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 115 (in Chapter 4.2) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Feinberg, Gerald and Shapiro, Robert in their “Life Beyond Earth” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 259 (in Chapter 9) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 2) of the Piccolo paperback edition. |
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Girvan, Waveney in his “Flying Saucers and Common Sense” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-139 (in Chapter 11) of the Frederick Muller hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Citadel hardback edition). |
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Gross, Loren E in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 640-641 (in an entry entitled “War of the Worlds, The”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 627-628 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Gross, Loren E in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 768-769 (in an entry entitled “War of the Worlds, The”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Guthke, Karl S in his “The Last Frontier : Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction: Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28, 34 (in Chapter 1.3), 122 (in Chapter 3.1), 300 (in Chapter 4.4), 368-369 (in Chapter 5.3), 382-383, 386-392 (in Chapter 5.4) of the Cornell University softcover edition. |
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Heidmann, Jean in his “Life in the Universe" (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Hennessey, Roger in his “Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 90 (in Chapter 9), 133-134 (in Chapter 12) of the Tempus hardback edition. |
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Hoagland, Richard in his “The Monuments of Mars” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-33 (in Chapter 3) of the 1992 revised |
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Kaveney, Roz in her “From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-39 (in Chapter 4) of the I B Taurus softcover edition. |
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Koerner, David and LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66, 68 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S and Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 641 (in the postscript to an entry entitled “War of the Worlds, The”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 628 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S and Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 768-769 (in the postscript to an entry entitled “War of the Worlds, The”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29, 31 (in the postcript to the an entry entitled “alien iconography”), 227-229 (in an entry entitled “Grays”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 29, 31, 222-224 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32, 34-35 (in the postcript to the an entry entitled “alien iconography”), 277-280 (in an entry entitled “Grays”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Macvey, John W in his “Interstellar Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 280 (in Chapter 16) of the |
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McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (in Chapter 3) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Moore, Patrick and Jackson, Francis in their “Life in the Universe” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134-135 (in Chapter 10) of the Norton softcover edition. |
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Moore, Patrick in his “On Mars” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in Chapter 4) of the Seven Dials softcover edition. |
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Moore, Patrick in his “The Next Fifty Years in Space” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 77 (in Chapter 5) of the William Luscombe hardback edition. |
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Morgan, Chris in his “Hardware : The Art of David A Hardy” (2001) at pages 23, 24-25 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Life in Space Art”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition. |
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Nesheim, Eric and Nesheim, Leif in their “Saucer Attack! : Pop Culture in the Golden Age of Flying Saucers” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8, 10-11, 12, 13 of the General Publishing softcover edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Chapter 4) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Peyton, Green in Hubertus Strughold’s “The Green and Red Planet” (1954) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page vi (in the Foreword) of the Sidgwick and Jackson hardback edition. |
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Pillinger, Colin in his “Beagle” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-53 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Is there Life on Mars?”) of the Faber and Faber hardback edition. |
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Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 3) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 1), 25 (in Chapter 3) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a page 121 (in Part 4) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112 (in an entry entitled “intervention”), 132 (in an entry entitled “Mars”), 141 (in an entry entitled “motion pictures”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in the Introduction) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Cosmos“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in Chapter 5) of the Abacus softcover edition. |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25 (in Chapter 2), 112, 117 (in Chapter 6) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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Sutherly, Curt in his “UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 136 (in Chapter 9) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Washburn, Mark in his “Mars at Last!” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-51 (in Chapter 4), 57 (in Chapter 5) of the Abacus paperback edition. |
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Watson, Nigel in “The Scareship Mystery : A survey of Phantom Airship Scares 1909-1918” (1999) (edited by Nigel Watson) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (in Chapter 3) of the Dorma softcover edition. |
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White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 143 (in Chapter 9) of the |
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White, Michael in his “Alien Life Forms : Sci-Fi Explained” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 1) of the Penguin paperback edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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