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01:23:16 - 02:20:16 -- PICTURES OF THE WEEK: From 1906, illustrations by Henrique Alvim Correa for a limited edition run of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Groundbreaking for its time, it told the story of a brutal invasion of Earth by a technologically advanced race from Mars, whose war machines were towering tripods. First serialized in 1897 in England in Pearson's Magazine and in the United States by Cosmopolitan Magazine, and then as a hardcover novel in 1898, the 1906 limited edition's illustrations were reportedly Wells' favorite.
Besides being a science-fiction classic, War of the Worlds' powerful opening passage has resonated with readers for more than a century...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us...
02:27:16 - 12:24:16 PICTURES OF THE WEEK: Poster art for alien-themed and flying-saucer science-fiction movies of the 1950s. From 1951: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Flight to Mars, The Man from Planet X, The Thing from Another World. From 1953: Invaders from Mars, It Came from Outer Space, War of the Worlds. From 1954: Devil Girl from Mars, Target Earth. From 1955: This Island Earth. From 1956: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. From 1957: Not of This Earth, Invasion of the Saucer Men.
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