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Published: 2011-11-01 03:43:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 2953; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 61
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This is a recreation of the book cover from my copy of HG Wells' The War of the Worlds.The actual cover picture itself is far better looking, and can be found here: [link]
So yeah.
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I'm not talking about the artists that make their own interpretations of the tripodial machines. That I'm cool with. What really irks me is that some people just paste a generic UFO saucer on the cover of a Novel that doesn't mention any of them. They should really at least add Tripod Legs, or design a more unique form of the Martian War Machine.
I even found a cover for a spanish version of the 1938 Radio Broadcast that not only depicts the Martians as weird Cyclops Spaghetti Monsters, but also has a 5 legged Martian Fighting Machine, strange as it seems.
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I've seen a cover with the USS Enterprise on it. I found that a bit weird at most.
I'm just happy to see that the novel has been printed over and over again, and that its contents haven't been tampered with (at least not dramatically).
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This 'un?
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That's what really irks me about some of the War Of The Worlds Cover Illustrations and the Illustrations for the 1938 Orson Welles Fake Broadcast.
They always seem to conform to the standard, overused Flying Saucer design and rarely seem to include any sense of mechanical legs anywhere. To me this seems like the artists that designed the cover simply copped out of actually reading the Novel to get at least some sense of what the Martian Battle Machines looked like.This seems to also be the case with most of the artists designing the illustrations for the 1938 Broadcast. I find this to be not only lazy and uncreative, but also a terrible insult to H.G. Well's work and to what Orson Welles was trying to visualise in his Radio Broadcast. In my opinion, they should be burned alive by the Heat-Ray and suffocated by the Black-Smoke.
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Chill.
I like the concepts people come up with, regardless of how inaccurate they are. They are all open to their own perceptions on what the machines look like. I dare say I have over a dozen different designs that I have made over the past few years, some unlike anything that has been done already and some unlike what the book describes them as. The machine's description was very broad in the novel, and the radio broadcast, I like that to think that encourages people to decide for themselves what the Machines appeared as. HG Well's might have been insulted, he seems to dislike misconceptions about what people perceive his work as. But it doesn't seem necessary to hold it against the artists. They help to fuel the imaginations and further inspire fans for generations to come.
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That's really cool, you keep amazing up with your Spore creations! 
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Looks excellent!
When i saw the cover, i thought of this concept art from the 1953 movie [link]
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We may never know what the artist intended the original picture to be, as it was made in 2004. To me it could be the Flying Machine, as it has no other distinguishing features that the Fighting machines posess besides their legs. But who knows...
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It could be the flying machine, btw here is a similar cover with an UFO with 3 ray legs [link]
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They seem to look more like 3 heat-rays sorta. Anyway, it dosnt really matter, kinda leaves it a mystery ^_^
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