Terrifying beauty: the imaginary world of Garrett Serviss.(Critical essay)
From: West Virginia University Philological Papers
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Date: 9/22/2006
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Author: Monahan, Kathleen N.
Lunar mountains glittering with diamonds and asteroids formed of gold. Cities bathed in light and forests soaring a thousand feet above red vegetation. These splendors astonish Thomas Edison and the crews of his spaceships on their voyage through space to Mars. (1)
Six weeks after the last installment of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds appeared in Cosmopolitan in 1897, Garrett Serviss published a sequel in which an international force seeks to prevent a second Martian attack ...
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