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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-09-21 04:31 pm

The great disillusionment

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?
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[identity profile] autopope.livejournal.com 2009-09-21 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

... And then filmed by Fritz Lang, with Leni Reifenstahl as cinematographer, at the behest of Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for the Martian Occupational Government (Central European Zone)?

[identity profile] doc-lemming.livejournal.com 2009-09-22 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Is Howard Waldrop free? I know he's not big on writing books, but this sounds like it's up his alley.