# War of the Worlds Sequel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061 "2004-08-23T06:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/1 "2004-08-23T06:53:30Z")
Did anyone ever try to write a sequel to the original novel of “The War of the Worlds”, even if only a short story? ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/2 "2004-08-23T10:24:02Z")
Yes. A sequel was published, one chapter at a time, in the backs of those old _Perry Rhodan_ novels of the seventies, in which Wells’ protagonist joins an expedition to launch a counterattack on Mars. A book was published recently, _War Of The Worlds: Local Dispatches_, which detailed the Martian invasion from a variety of local standpoints. Each story was written either from the viewpoint of a famous person who would have been alive at the time (Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso) or in the style of a literary giant alive at the time (Jack London, H. P. Lovecraft). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/3 "2004-08-23T15:49:02Z")
There was also a short lived television series started in the early 90’s that took place in the present time (early 90s). Supposedly, the aliens didn’t die, but instead went comotose and woke up years later and started wrecking havok again, but this time in a more underground way by taking over people’s bodies. I never saw more than maybe fifteen minutes of the show, but what I saw was rather graphically violent and rather grotesque. Interesting, but it should be noted, this was a sequel to the movie, not the actual book… ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/4 "2004-08-23T17:21:21Z")
Wreaking. Wreaking havoc. There was a novel called _The Second War of the Worlds_. Published in the 1970’s or 80’s. Can’t remember the name of the author. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/5 "2004-08-23T17:35:41Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Wreaking. Wreaking havoc. > > There was a novel called _The Second War of the Worlds_. Published in the 1970’s or 80’s. Can’t remember the name of the author. [George H. Smith](http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hodder/secondwarworlds.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/6 "2004-08-23T17:54:44Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > [George H. Smith](http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hodder/secondwarworlds.html) I’ve been looking for years for these othere titles! Thank you, **Mr. Blue Sky**! 🙂🙂 ALL PRAISE THE SDMB, & THE HOLY **CECIL**! \< **Bosda** does the Happy dance! \> ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/7 "2004-08-23T18:02:40Z")
BTW–Is there an Omnibus Edition? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/8 "2004-08-23T18:54:53Z")
Chapter One. “It was penicillin that sealed our doom…” ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/9 "2004-08-23T18:59:53Z")
Wasn’t _Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension_ a sequel to _The War of the Worlds_? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/10 "2004-08-23T20:26:49Z")
Aha! found it… I think the _first_ sequel. [Edison’s Conquest of Mars](http://members.aol.com/taedisonjr/conquest.htm) from: “Edison’s Conquest of Mars” which first appeared in the Evening Journal on January 12, 1898 > [@](#): > > Serviss was a 47 year-old journalist and lecturer in astronomy, who was to become one of the earliest authors of science-fiction. When solicited by Brisbane, Serviss had immediately turned to Edison for help. Of course Edison was too busy to participate, however he did agree to be featured as the hero of the story and Serviss proceeded to write his story around Edison. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/11 "2004-08-24T12:17:00Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > [George H. Smith](http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hodder/secondwarworlds.html) I ordered the other volumes online last night. Again, my warmest thanks, **Mr. Blue Sky**. May the Great Bird Of The Galaxy shower only blessings on your head! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/12 "2004-08-24T13:15:23Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > [George H. Smith](http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hodder/secondwarworlds.html) That’s IT!!! That is the image of the **Thunder’s Child** duelling with the War Machine I’ve been trying to find for the past few years… ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/13 "2004-08-24T14:10:23Z")
Marvel Comics did a sequel series back in the 70s. This time, the Martians came back and were really PO-ed. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/14 "2004-08-24T15:20:45Z")
Yes! – now I recognize the cover of the George Smith book. Probably one of the hundreds of books I lost when burglars torched my home in 1986. Manley Wade Wellman wrote an entertaining book called _Sherlock Holmes’ War of the Worlds_. It brought together Holmes and Doyle’s other great character, Professor Challenger. (And included hanky-panky between Holmes and Mrs. Hudson, if you can believe it.) Wells’ Martians were more than a match for the military technology of Britain c. 1900. If they invaded the same way now… well, I hope we’d get some live specimens while we were busy blowing up their invasion force. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/15 "2004-08-24T17:08:53Z")
The **Strugatski** brothers wrote a sequel novella set in the Soviet Union called _The Second Martian Invasion_ or alternatively, in a different translation, _The Second Invasion from Mars_. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/16 "2004-08-24T18:38:52Z")
Hey, I was serious. Wasn’t there some angle to\* Buckaroo Banzai\* that was a followup, or takeoff, on\* War of the Worlds\*? ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/17 "2004-08-24T18:48:27Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Hey, I was serious. Wasn’t there some angle to\* Buckaroo Banzai\* that was a followup, or takeoff, on\* War of the Worlds\*? The aliens invaded Grovers Mills, NJ in 1938, and brainwashed Orson Welles to claim it was just a radio hoax. They got IDs with names like “John Small Berries” and “John BigBoote” ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-sequel/261061/18 "2004-08-24T18:54:46Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Wells’ Martians were more than a match for the military technology of Britain c. 1900. If they invaded the same way now… well, I hope we’d get some live specimens while we were busy blowing up their invasion force. I noticed that. Particulary since they 1. Can be killed, and a single cannon blast on target is apparently enough to do the job. 2. Have unpack their tripods and apparently even the heat rays from the cylinders when they arrive. A couple farmer with shotguns could easily wipe them out by picking them off as they leave the cylinders, before they have the chance to assemble their weapons. Though Wells essentially anticipated 20th century warfare years in advance. The Black Smoke is obviously some kind of chemical warfare and the tripods work much like the Blitzkreig would in 1939. Quite Jarring in 1898, but a third world country could probably deal with a martiain invasion like that in 2004. A NATO nation would probably consider the entire thing a training exercise.