The War of the Worlds
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."--The War of the Worlds (1898) b y H. G. Wells "Orson Welles first gained wide American notoriety on the 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast of H. G. Wells's novel of the same name. Adapted to sound like an actual news broadcast, it caused panic and even mass hysteria. Welles and his biographers subsequently claimed he was exposing the gullibility of American audiences in the tense preamble to the Second World War."--Sholem Stein |
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The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, and a television series based on the story. The 1938 radio broadcast caused public outcry against the episode, as some listeners believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress, a notable example of mass hysteria.
