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Edison's Conquest of Mars
Garrett P. Serviss
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“Edison’s Conquest of Mars” was published as an unauthorized sequel to H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. The book was endorsed by Thomas Edison, the hero of the book — though not by Wells. (Summary from Wikipedia)
“Edison’s Conquest of Mars” was published as an unauthorized sequel to H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. The book was endorsed by Thomas Edison, the hero of the book — though not by Wells. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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"I am glad I thought of the disintegrator," he said. "I shouldn't like to see that world down there laid waste again."
"And it won't be," said Professor Sylvanus P. Thompson, gripping the handle of an electric machine, "not if we can help it."
Chapter V.
To prevent accidents, it had been arranged that the ships should keep a considerable distance apart. Some of them gradually drifted away, until, on account of the neutral tint of their sides, they were swallowed up in the abyss of space. Still it was possible to know where every member of the squadron was through the constant interchange of signals. These, as I have explained, were effected by means of mirrors flashing back the light of the sun.
But, although it was now unceasing day for us, yet, there being no atmosphere to diffuse the sun's light, the stars were visible to us just as at night upon the earth, and they shone with. . . Read More
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Intriguing but disappointing. Serviss does come up with a lot of concepts that are, if not entirely brand-new to SF, then at least new enough to feel really innovative. And the sheer lunacy of the plot paired with the dry journalistic I-swear-I'm-an-actual-scientist prose does lead to some chuckles.
What to say about a 125 year old science fiction story? What standards do you hold such a thing to? It's a stone cold racist book by today's standards and I had to keep reminding myself that speaking of the 'Aryan race' was different then.
This is said to have the first space suits in sf. But the wri
¡Estupenda novela! Como fan de La Guerra de los Mundos de H. G. Wells, siempre tuve ganas de leer esta historia, segunda parte no autorizada, de la novela. Y me voy dando cuenta de que en realidad es una segunda parte de una adaptación pirata que se hizo del libro, pero ambientada en Estados Unidos
G.P. Serviss es un autor de final del siglo XIX y primeros del XX, muy opacado por las más brillantes estrellas del momento, que eran H.G.Wells y Jules Verne. Sin llegar, a la altura de ellos, produjo una ciencia ficción de calidad, que había quedado inédita en español.
Esta es el segundo número de
Vale a pena ler este livro para ter uma ideia do que foram as edisonades, um sub-género literário inspirado na fama do inventor Edison que o colocava como personagem de mirabolantes aventuras em que as suas invenções eram determinantes para o final feliz. Talvez uma comparação actual possa ser feita
Liked the story's gung ho spirit.
In 1898 there was no copyright for foreign publishers in the U.S., so this was an unauthorized but legal sequel to War of the Worlds-- fanfiction, essentially, and it reads like it. It is a breathless description of events, without any real characters or dialogue worth mentioning, but fun in an over
I picked this one up for two reasons: The novelty that came with learning of a contemporary sequel to The War of the Worlds that I'd never heard of, and the idea of an 1890s story depicting interplanetary warfare with, as the book jacket promised me, "a cornucopia of technical ingenuity."
As a sequel
Not one of the great books of science fiction history, this is arguably War of the Worlds and Thomas Edison fan fiction. Nevertheless, it introduced such science fictional concepts as space suits, asteroid mining, disintegrator pistols, and alien abduction (yes, Mars does need women!) Serviss presen