Thunderchild's fate

Just one example of lonesome crow's excellent WOTW artwork here: http://lonesome--crow.deviantart.com/gallery/#

 

War of the Worlds with LI

A TMP thread discusses the use of :LI to fight out WOTW scenarios:

Fires in the Night Sky or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Madhi

SitRep: The Madhi forces had been pushing hard along the Nile toward a small port of Abba-Dabba Do. An Anglo-Egyptian force has marched to protect this town from the advancing enemy. During the night before the battle, huge fires in the Madhi camp lit the night skys and the frenzied warchants of the fathful could be heard. The defenders of Abba-Dabba Do steeled themselves for the coming assault.

When the dawn broke, the defenders were in for a suprise….

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=166839

More pics here:

http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z320/Evad77/War%20of%20the%20Worlds/

Great job chaps!

Brigade releases Olympians

...just in time for Salute 09. Check them out here:

http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Frames/SaluteReleases.html

WOTW - Radio broadcast

The original WOTW radio broadcast is now on YouTube with a CGI backdrop!



http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=aonl

Martians, cylinders and green flashes in the sky

Scientists are only now getting the evidence to prove what we already know...Mars is inhabited!!!

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-directories/3-civilization/civilization-directory.htm

And are these the holes that remain after theose terrible projectiles were fired with a green flash?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070928.html

UUULLLLAAAAA!

Another metal cylinder from Mars?

Is the first sign of another Invasion force en-route to Earth?

Yes, another Green Flash! Just like last time...

Mon Sep 17, 11:23 PM -
Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village

LIMA - Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odor," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said. Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.

"Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918/sc_afp/peruhealthoffbeat

HMS THUNDERCHILD in Action!

Remember the Jeff Wayne WOTW live show I mentioned a little while ago?

Well, its been released on DVD, and if you'd like a preview, here is my favourite scene on YouTube: the attack of the HMS THUNDERCHILD!

Tripods!

Luis, a stout chap I know from the Club, sent me this great news:
Detailed models of those confounded Martian Contraptions!



"Retrokit are primarily known for their armor and artillery models. This model of H.G. Wells (in)famous Martian Tripod is their first science fictional offering. It's based on the illustrations of Alvim Correa in a 1906 French edition of the novel, drawings that Wells said were very close to his own vision of the fighting machines."
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/was/jl_retrokit.htm

More can be seen at the manufacturer's site here: http://www.retrokit.net/79.html

Smashing!

2mm Martian Infantry

Germy has been busy indeed..! He has produced these cephalopodic nightmares which you may recall from that terrible summer. He says:

"Following the description HG Wells gives I think they came out rather well :)Obviously they will need to get themselves in a fighting machine quick since there combat ability as lumbering hulks was never described!

So next up had to be a martian spread to the four winds. I thought people could build little dioramas of a fallen tripod and dead martian."

I know I'll be making up a diorama just like that!

You can see more of Germy's WOTW studd at his miniGerm website here: http://www.minigerm.co.uk/workmarinf.html

Flying Martians observed!

That stout chap Germy has released his lastest pics of flying Martian contraptions!

With good luck, they will soon appear with Germy's other WOTW stuff at the Brigade Models website.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.minigerm.co.uk/workmartian.html

The Martian War

The other book I read while touring the Kingdom of Thailand was this:

The Martian War: A Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent Invasion As Reported by Mr. H.G. Wells
by Gabriel Mesta (AKA Kevin J. Anderson)

This is a very different take on the WOTW concept, one in which all of Wells's stories are based on factual events. Working for the secret Imperial Institute in London, he cannot divulge his adventures in any fashion other than fictional stories for the paper. Cavourite spheres, invisibility potions, germ warfare, lunar beings, tentacled Martians, battle tripods, Professor Huxley, Dr Moreau, Percival Lowell - it's a grand cast of period characters and materials.

The plot of this book is therefore a completely different one to the traditional WOTW stories and I found it quite enchanting. An easy read in the Victorian period literary style, I found it quite compelling and hard to put down.

I give it 9/10

You can read other reviews of this book at Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/Martian-War-Thrilling-Eyewitness-Invasion/dp/0743446550/ref=sr_1_2/102-9120740-3087328?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179136658&sr=1-2

War of the Worlds: Next Millenium

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War of the Worlds: New Millennium

by: Douglas Niles

I just spent 10 days in the Kingdom of Siam, enjoying this book that Maksim, fellow White Wine Saucer and ace reporter, most kindly sent me as a gift a few weeks ago. Thanks awfully, old boy, and to thank you, here is White Wine Sauce's first ever book review!

The traditional WOTW story translated into a contemporary context, but it is NOT a novel of the recent Tom Cruise film. Think more Wells with Tom Clancy techno-military detail.

Its a very easy read with a fast paced and engaging story, though some technical blunders along the way do marr it just a little (...then again, VSF'ers aren't normally too interested in such nuances!).

Almost all the plotlines of the original Wells masterpeice are represented here including the Battle of Maybury Hill, the Artilleryman, the Thunderchild, etc. but are not the same as the original. Spotting the similarities was fun. The only one I couldn't see was the parson episode and being trapped under a cylinder. Without spoiling the plot, the ending also has a nice twist on the original.

Overall, an absorbing and enjoyable read which stays true to the spirit of Wells.

I give it 7.5/10

You can read more about it here:
http://www.amazon.com/War-Worlds-Millennium-Douglas-Niles/dp/0765311429/ref=sr_1_6/102-9120740-3087328?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179115096&sr=1-6

Thanks again, Maks! I haven't read a novel for ages and this was just the tonic I needed for a bit of R&R!