Labels: text | wheel | auto part | screenshot | machine | tire | electronics | camera | truck OCR: H.G.WELLS Wells's speculations H.G. Wells's "War of the Worlds" ARTISTS DREAM OF MARS The most famous Martians in literature belong to H.G. WELLS @ the fictional world of British novelist H.G. Wells, who CINEMA & MUSIC published "War of the Worlds" in 1898. Wells, like Jules Verne, will always be remembered as one of the great pioneers of science fiction. Born in 1866, into a working-class family, Herbert George Wells won a scholarship to London's Normal School of Science, but left before obtaining a degree. He worked a while as a school teacher, then abandoned his job to become a full-time writer. With his science training, and his reading of Camille Flammarion's work, Wells was aware of Orson Welles's the latest astronomical research. He fully exploited the radio adaptation many discoveries of his day in his imaginative tales. Late in his life, Wells said that "War of the Worlds" was inspired by a remark his brother Frank had made while they were travelling in Surrey. Frank exclaimed, "Imagine Bradbury's a moment if the inhabitants of another planet landed "Martian Chronicles" suddenly in this prairie and began walking toward us ... " The story was born. Mars at this time was a fashionable subject. Percival Lowell's observations of Mars were in the news and his ideas about the Martian canals were gaining popularity. At the beginning of Wells's novel, set in 1894, a "great light HALLCOL was seen on the illuminated part" of Mars. MARS BETAT
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