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"A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather."Related content
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Thanks! 
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[whispers] Ok... Ulla... Ulla...
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Thanks!
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I noticed you mentioned John Carter and LoEG below.Β The anthology War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches contains a John Carter vs. Wellsian Martians story.Β And A. Bertram Chandler wrote a novel way back in 1965 that combined just about everyone's Mars stories:
www.bertramchandler.com/novelsβ¦
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I haven't read any of your suggestions, I'm afraid (but thanks for the tips). I have read the second volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", which is set during the Wellsian Martian invasion of Earth. It starts of with John Carter and Gullivar Jones Β battling the "Martians", which aren't Martians at all.
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I tell myself I ought to read new SF books . . . but often I curve back to Wells, his short stories as much as his novels.Β "The Sea-Raiders," "Empire of the Ants," "In the Avu Observatory," "Valley of the Spiders," "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid," "Aepyornis Island," and "In the Abyss," with its Gorgo-like reptiles on the ocean floor (which I long ago dubbed "Abyssaurs").Β But nothing beats the granddaddy of all alien invasions, The War of the Worlds!
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I actually read a lot of scifi in the 1980's, and most of that was stuff published in the 1960's and 70's. I found writers that I could always rely on delivering great ideas as well as great prose, and I've stuck to them. It's the same with fantasy; I've found very few new authors that are satisfying compared to Tolkien, Moorcock and the rest of the old guard.
Wells is one of those that never disappoints. He can deliver pulp action and social comment with equal aplomb.
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are youΒ a fan of the jeff wayne version?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLtly4β¦
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Looks pretty fantastic. Reminds me a lot of the style that Ray Harryhausen wanted to do for the War of the World's film
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I'd love to make my own stopmo version of both the Martians and their tripods, but I haven't figured out a good project for the idea yet. I'm not interested in filming the whole novel.
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WWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOAHHHHH wait a second. I have an idea!
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Yes and no
These Martians are from H G Wells novel "War of the Worlds". But in Alan Moore's comic "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" the plot starts off on the planet Mars, with John Carter fighting off these octopid aliens, and having them leave Mars and go to Earth instead.
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