Saturday, September 20, 2003

The Model. Professional model maker Martin Bowers and his Martian Fighting Machine. 5:32:08 PM     |

If only. Harry Harryhausen's concept ideas for a War of the Worlds movie. 5:20:48 PM     |

Red Planet. The Mars Exploration homepage. 5:09:33 PM     |

Shiny. The Martian Walking Engine by sculptor Michael Condron. That thing sits right in the centre of Woking in Surrey. 5:00:10 PM     |

The Covers. A website with 130 'War of the Worlds' book covers. Amazing. Also Interior Illustrations and Other Images. Even more amazing. Via the Museum of Online Museums at Coudal Partners. More later. I've got some shopping to do and something to discuss with the former Bishop Information Minister. 8:34:40 AM     |

The Hoax. Listen to the original "The War of the Worlds" broadcast in RealAudio. And the script is here. 8:23:39 AM     |

Read the Book. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells, 1898. Online Edition. This Web edition of The War of the Worlds was prepared in June of 1995 by John Walker. It is based on the Project Gutenberg electronic text (etext) edition, warw11.txt which I obtained from the mirror archive then maintained by L'Association des bibliophiles Universels where you will also find a wide variety of French language public domain texts. More about the author at The H.G. Wells Society. 8:13:25 AM     |

War. This is your former Bishop Information Minister speaking. I'm still here. And I declare this Saturday today officially to War of the Worlds day! 7:58:32 AM     |