Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds

Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds
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Author	Manly Wade Wellman Wade Wellman
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Mystery, Science fiction
Published	1975
Based on = Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds is a sequel to H. G. Wells's science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, written by Manly Wade Wellman and his son Wade Wellman, and published in 1975. It is a pastiche crossover which combines H. G. Wells's extraterrestrial invasion story with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger stories.

It was inspired by a viewing of A Study in Terror.^[1]

Plot

The story consists of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Professor Challenger in London during the Martian invasion as described in Wells's novel.

Background

The underlying philosophy of the book is very different to, indeed contradictory to, the original Wells story in which the idea is repeatedly expressed of humans being completely helpless before the Martian invaders, as are other creatures before humans. Conversely, in the Wellmans' book Holmes, Watson, and Challenger continually confront and outwit the Martians, undeterred by the invaders' technological superiority.

The story features a romantic relationship between Holmes and his landlady Mrs. Hudson, of which Watson is oblivious.

Reissues

Titan Books reprinted the book in 2009, under the title of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds as part of its Further Adventures series, which collects a number of noted pastiches.

References

↑ http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/sherlock_war_worlds.htm

External links

Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Sherlock Holmes's War of The Worlds at Titan Books

H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1897)

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Novels	Fighters from Mars Edison's Conquest of Mars Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds The Space Machine War of the Worlds: New Millennium The Martian War

Radio	The War of the Worlds (1938) The War of the Worlds (1968)

Films	The War of the Worlds (1953) The Night That Panicked America The War of the Worlds: Next Century H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005) H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005) War of the Worlds (2005) War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave War of the Worlds: Goliath

Comics	Killraven Superman: War of the Worlds The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II Scarlet Traces H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds

Music	Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds "Forever Autumn" Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation

Television	The Great Martian War 1913–1917 War of the Worlds episodes Mor-Tax Mor-Taxans

Video games	War of the Worlds (1982) The War of the Worlds (1984) Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998) Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1999)

Short fiction	War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches "Mars: The Home Front" "To Mars and Providence" Rainbow Mars

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Bibliography

Sherlock Holmes	A Study in Scarlet (1887) The Sign of the Four (1890) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904) The Valley of Fear (1914) His Last Bow (1917) The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)

Professor Challenger	The Lost World (1912) The Poison Belt (1913) The Land of Mist (1926) "When the World Screamed" (1928) "The Disintegration Machine" (1929)

Other novels	The Mystery of Cloomber (1889) Micah Clarke (1889) The Firm of Girdlestone (1890) The White Company (1891) The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892) Beyond the City (1892) The Refugees (1893) The Parasite (1894) The Stark Munro Letters (1895) The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) Rodney Stone (1896) The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus (1899) Adventures of Gerard (1903) Sir Nigel (1906) The Maracot Deep (1929)

Short stories	"J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884) "Lot No. 249" (1892) "The Club-Footed Grocer" (1898) "The Brown Hand" (1899) "The Terror of Blue John Gap" (1910) "The Horror of the Heights" (1913) Danger! and Other Stories (1918)

Other	The Vital Message (1919)

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