As Stanford Live prepares to host the U.S. Wells' novel ranks among the most influential and most frequently adapted science fiction stories of all time, having conquered the realms of television, the big screen, radio, videogames, theater, animation, comics, rock opera, and even outer space itself. Wells’1897 tale of alien invasion, The War of the Worlds. Or perhaps the real threat all along has been the news itself, beamed directly into our ever-credulous brains through our radios, our televisions, our phones.Įach of these historically specific paranoias has found a ready blueprint in H.G. Actually, scratch that-I’m now receiving word that it is, in fact, the Germans whose armies are taking our city by storm. Although some say the Communists or Al-Qaeda are to blame. They’re coming for you-the Martians, that is.
Rhum and Clay's new production of The War of the Worlds stars Julian Spooner, Gina Isaac, Matt Wells, and Jess Mabel Jones.