{"id":3607,"date":"2022-05-01T19:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T19:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2022-05-01T19:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T19:31:56","slug":"green-hand-the-war-of-the-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/green-hand-the-war-of-the-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Hand: The War of the Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book I decided to read was\u00a0<em>The War of the Worlds<\/em> (1898) by H.G. Wells. I knew that this book is considered to be a classic by many, and has some funny stories surrounding it, most notably Orson Welles reading it aloud in a radio program in 1938 and causing a panic amongst listeners who did not know it was fictional. I was also very intrigued by the premise, being a martian invasion of the earth, as reading the blurb I was led to believe that it would not be a war of the worlds, but a massacre, as the martians seemed to be\u00a0<em>much\u00a0<\/em>more advanced than the humans.<\/p>\n<p>My prediction ended up being correct, and my sentiments were echoed perfectly in a quote that stood out to me quite a bit: &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a war&#8230; It never was a war, any more than there&#8217;s war between man and ants&#8221; (Wells 146).<\/p>\n<p>It is remarkable that such a book was published in the 19th century and continues to be so influential and prevalent in the SF space, as well as beyond. One cool fact that I learned is that Robert H. Goddard, the man credited with developing the first liquid-fuelled rocket, was inspired by the book.<\/p>\n<p>My main issue with the book is a lack of character development, but this is generally a problem I have with most of the harder-SF I encounter. I sometimes hard it find to read through books when I am not personally invested in the characters that I am supposed to be rooting for. Despite this, there is plenty of action, and H.G. Wells&#8217; style of writing is amazing. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for some classic SF action and adventure, but if you are looking for a literal war between worlds, you might be a bit disappointed in how pitiful the humans are.<\/p>\n<p>Wells, H.G.\u00a0<em>The War of the Worlds\u00a0<\/em>(1898). London: William Heinemann.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Y3CI2U9eL.jpg\" alt=\"H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds: Amazon.com: Books\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book I decided to read was\u00a0The War of the Worlds (1898) by H.G. Wells. I knew that this book is considered to be a classic by many, and has some funny stories surrounding it, most notably Orson Welles reading it aloud in a radio program in 1938 and causing a panic amongst listeners who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}