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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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War of the Worlds
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(1898) Immensely influential story by H.G. *Wells, first published as a serial in Pearson's Magazine in 1897. Others at the time had speculated about Martians sending messages to earth, but Wells produced the classic science-fiction scenario of them invading in a rocket. Their weapons prove irresistible, London is destroyed, and the survivors of the catastrophe subsist with difficulty until the Martians are overcome by an unexpected foe – earth's bacteria. A radio adaptation by Orson Welles in the USA in 1938, using the convention of a news bulletin, was so convincing that it caused widespread panic.
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