The great disillusionment

[james_davis_nicoll]

Is it wrong, on the occasion of H.G.Wells' 143 birthday, to ponder what War of the Worlds might have been like had it been written from a pro-Martian Imperialism perspective by Rudyard Kipling?

Comments

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

Take up the Red Man's burden ...

[(Anonymous)]

More "the brown octopus's burden" - the Martians are described as grey or oily brown in coloration, "glistening like wet leather"...anyway, we're not the Mughals or Chinese. At best we're Great Plains Indians, and more likely Tasmanian Aborigines.

Bruce