# Sequels you May not Have Known Existed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650 "2003-02-04T04:19:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650/141 "2004-01-03T15:38:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by picunurse \* > \*\*Didn’t _An American Werewolf in London_ go to Paris later? > _Support Your Local Sherif_ was followed by _Support your Local Gunfighter_ not sooo good. \*\* Gunfighter wasn’t a sequel to Sheriff, despite the same director, a similar title, and much of the same cast. Just a weird coinkydink. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650/142 "2004-01-03T21:49:50Z")
More literary sequels… HG Wells’ _War of the Worlds_ had several sequels written by other people. I read two of them in high school, and would like to find them again. One was named something like _Edison Goes to Mars_, but I don’t know what the other was called. Anyone else know more? Recently I came across an anthology of stories written in the “War of the Worlds universe”. The stories there deal with the Martian invasion of other lands (Russia, China, the USA, etc) at the same time as Wells’ original extraterrestrial invasion of England. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650/143 "2004-01-03T22:04:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunspace \* > \*\*More literary sequels… > > HG Wells’ _War of the Worlds_ had several sequels written by other people. I read two of them in high school, and would like to find them again. One was named something like _Edison Goes to Mars_, but I don’t know what the other was called. Anyone else know more?\*\* Could it have been Manly Wade Wellman’s _Sherlock Holmes’ War of the Worlds_ ? ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650/144 "2004-01-03T22:31:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by detop \* > \*\*It is. I can attest to it. I own both films. \*\* You have my deepest sympathies. Of course, Kathy Ireland is one of the loves of my life, she just hasn’t realized it yet. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650/145 "2004-01-03T22:39:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Laughing Lagomorph \* > \*\*Of course, Kathy Ireland is one of the loves of my life, she just hasn’t realized it yet. \*\* In that case, don’t bother watching the second movie. She only has a cameo in it. And just in case the warning didn’t take, [here is the IMDB entry for the movie](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0097630/) :D. Enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650/146 "2004-01-03T23:24:09Z")
Actually, **detop** , that might have been it. I am now going to have to find that book at the science-fiction library. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650/147 "2004-01-03T23:29:29Z")
Glad to have been able to help. ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650/148 "2004-01-04T00:13:24Z")
While **The Bridge on the River Kwai** won 7 Oscars, **Return from the River Kwai** (1988) was not so widely received. It does have George Takei, though. Too bad that’s all it has going for it. [IMDb listing here.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095985/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-may-not-have-known-existed/152650.md?page=7)