The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter is a true monument to The War of the Worlds, perfectly extending the story into a wider incursion by the Martians. 10/10 from me, it is a book I'm not going to forget.

https://rdmp.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=the-massacre-of-mankind

@bookstodon #reading #waroftheworlds #themassacreofmankind #scifi #ScifiReading #stephenbaxter #books #BooksWorthReading

#ScienceFiction #fandom #letters #WarOfTheWorlds

'The University of Michigan Library has digitized, transcribed and categorized more than 1,300 fan letters sent in response to the 1938 broadcast of Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds.”

The entire collection of letters, part of the university’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Collection, has been published open access for researchers and fans around the globe.'

https://news.umich.edu/war-of-the-worlds-fan-mail-over-1300-letters-digitized-open-access-from-u-m-library/

Tonight’s Blu-ray… Jeff Wayne’s live performance of #WarOfTheWorlds, hopefully kicking off memories from when I saw it live in London on its first outing. Forget who was in it but it had the giant holographic head.

"No one would have believed in the middle years of the twentieth century that this city was being watched ..."

These rather alien-looking mid-20th Century water towers in Garthamlock in the east of Glasgow always remind me of the opening lines from the War of the Worlds (and for obvious reasons, I always hear them said in the voice of Richard Burton!).

Listening to early Jean-Michel Jarre on #Spotify

Am smiling as I remember being a naive 16 year old being introduced to JMJ by his older audiophile cousin and me laughing and annoying him by asking "he's REALLY called John the Jam Jar?"

#misheard #artist

I was in awe of my cousin. He had this behemoth LP deck. He'd handle each record like a precious relic placing the stylus on the record with all due reverence.

Introduced me to the stereophonic wonders of his extensive record collection. I've him to thank for my love of #PinkFloyd , #Jarre, #Vangelis , #JeffWayne #WarofTheWorlds, #MikeOldfield #TubularBells , #ELO to name but a few. I'm eclectic in my musical tastes because he was.

It is entirely appropriate that New Jersey is freaking out about invading aliens, err drones. #WarOfTheWorlds #WarOfTheDrones #WeirdNJ https://www.westwindsorhistory.com/waroftheworlds.html

No one would have believed I'd remember to keep posting for #MusicAdventCalendar but here is day 7 - the Lo-Fi Orchestra's slightly abridged version of Part 1 of Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds.

Here is:
- The Eve of the War
- Horsell Common and the Heat Ray
- The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine
- Forever Autumn
- Thunder Child

Part 2 to follow later!

https://makertube.net/w/ddDSznVgEAZD27PLwr17eb

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work.

Eric Goebelbecker: I was lucky enough to inherit an incurable curiosity about technology and a tremendous love of science fiction from my father. Both led to a career repairing radars in the U.S. Army, followed by ...

https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-eric-goebelbecker/

Geil ULLA-dub-ULLA!

#waroftheworlds #musical #remix
#scifi #music #JeffWayne #vinyl

Tonight in 1938 — Orson Welles’s "The War of the Worlds” aired on CBS radio.

The MERCURY THEATER ON THE AIR adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel caused many to believe we were under attack from “invading Martians.”

Would you have fallen for Orson Welles' infamous #WaroftheWorlds broadcast?

#OnThisDay in 1938, radio listeners tuned in to what sounded like a live report of a Martian invasion! Relive the thrill (and the chills) of this legendary moment with this rebroadcast from @wgbh now preserved in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Listen for yourself and imagine how you might have felt if you'd tuned in that fateful night in 1938: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-93gxdjvq

Rewatching War of the Worlds by Spielberg - was it just me, or was there a lot of thematic comparisons to the Holocaust and World war II in that movie?

Thanks for the kind words! ★★★★★ Nicely-designed figures with a lot of detail. They're going to be just right for representatives of a malevolent, destructive machine-race determined to conquer the galaxy due to a legacy of corrupted programming. Vaguely reminiscent of HG Wells' Martian Tripods (only with four legs) ...... PLUSH HYENA of DOOM https://etsy.me/4h2ULv4 #etsy #warhammer #warhammer40k #nacron #waroftheworlds #scifi #miniatures #3dprinting

“"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one" he said
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one"
But still they come!”
#WarOfTheWorlds #AfterTheGig #CherryPicker #Mastodaoine