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An illustration of Martians attacking
from a 1906 edition of The War of the Worlds by HG Wells.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
George RR Martin: our long obsession with Mars
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/01/
george-rr-martin-mars-game-of-thrones-martians
No one would have believed,
in the last years
of the nineteenth
century,
that human affairs
were 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 affairs
they were scrutinized and studied,
perhaps
almost as narrowly
as a man with a microscope
might scrutinize the transient
creatures
that swarm and multiply
in a drop of water.
War of the Worlds
Herbert George Wells
1866-1946
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COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM
ORSON WELLES AND MERCURY THEATRE ON THE AIR
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1938
Ladies and gentlemen,
we interrupt our program of dance music to
bring you
a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News.
At twenty
minutes before eight, central time,
Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings
Observatory,
Chicago, Illinois, reports
observing
several explosions of
incandescent gas,
occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars.
The
spectroscope indicates the gas
to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth
with
enormous velocity.
Professor Pierson
of the Observatory at Princeton
confirms Farrell's observation,
and describes the phenomenon
as
(quote) like a jet of
blue flame
shot from a gun (unquote).
We now return you
to the music of Ramón
Raquello, playing for you
in the Meridian Room
of the Park Plaza Hotel,
situated
in downtown New York.
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