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We're About to be Invaded (Again) by Martians, Read All About it New War of the Worlds Anthology Includes Complete Original Novella by H. G. Wells

* "H. G. Wells' Enduring Mythos of Mars," in which Stephen Baxter provides the history of man's investigations of Mars and explains why Wells was right after all

* "Just Who Were Those Martians, Anyway?" in which Lawrence Watt-Evans explains how ridiculously incompetent the Martians were as interplanetary invaders, and why

* "In Woking's Image," in which Mercedes Lackey takes us to a different alien world: Wells' hometown of Woking during the late 19th century

* "The Tiniest Assassins," in which Mike Resnick suggests that Wells gets one tiny thing wrong

* The Hugo-winning "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" (the only reprint in this anthology), in which Connie Willis describes the unfortunate encounter between Emily Dickinson and Wells' Martians

* Introduction by Robert Silverberg

The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic (includes the complete text of the original War of the Worlds)

Editor: Glenn Yeffeth
ISBN: 1-932100-55-5
Pub. Month: May 2005
Retail: $17.95 (US)/$25.95 (CAN)
Publisher: BenBella Books
Cover: Trade Paperback

Thanks to Ron S.