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?

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[(Anonymous)]

I up with my ray at a Yankee
Who carried a bloomin' Krag*
He was well in range but he tasted strange
and cough cough choke choke aghhhh...

*He'd have rayed down a Briton if 'Enfield' rhymed better.

As in many areas, the Simpsons has been there before us, in a Halloween Special.

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weird, I'd signed in before I hit post.