At least were not being exterminated by alien attack-robots: watching War of the Worlds in a pandemic

By Kevin John Brophy
September 18 2021 - 12:00am
This story is more layered, more intimate, and more satisfying than Wells managed in his novella. Picture: SBS
This story is more layered, more intimate, and more satisfying than Wells managed in his novella. Picture: SBS

As a child my reading tastes were precocious but old fashioned. For instance, I was reading H. G. Wells' 1898 speculative novel The War of the Worlds around 1960 as a 10-year-old, thrilling to its proposition that our civilisation could collapse at any moment, and the cold reaches of space might deliver to us an intelligent but ruthlessly murderous life form.

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