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Editor: Kevin J. Anderson
Year: 1996
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Series: War of the Worlds
Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds:_Global_Dispatches
ISFDB Record Number: 33869
Synopsis: The stories in this anthology are written in the style of (more or less) contemporaries of H. G. Wells: H. G. Wells (Foreword); Teddy Roosevelt (The Roosevelt Dispatches); Percival Lowell (Canals in the Sand); Dowager Empress of China (Foreign Devils); Pablo Picasso (Blue Period); Henry James (The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James); Winston Churchill & H. Rider Haggard (The True Tale of the Final Battle...); Texas Rangers (Night of the Cooters); Albert Einstein (Determinism and the Martian War...); Rudyard Kipling (Soldier of the Queen); E. R. Burroughs (Mars: The Home Front); Joseph Pulitzer (A Letter From St. Louis); Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection); Jules Verne (Paris Conquers All); H. P. Lovecraft (To Mars and Providence); Mark Twain (Roughing It...); Joseph Conrad (To See the World End); Jack London (After a Lean Winter); Emily Dickinson (The Soul Selects Her Own Society); Jules Verne (Afterword)
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Awards:
- 1997 Locus Poll Award - Best Anthology (Place: 5)
Publications:
- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, (Jun 1996, ed. Kevin J. Anderson, publ. Bantam Spectra, 0-553-10353-9, $22.95, 274pp, hc, anth) Cover: Roger Dean , Tim White - [VERIFIED]
- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, (Sep 1996, ed. Kevin J. Anderson, publ. Bantam Spectra / SFBC, #13620, $10.98, 274pp, hc, anth) Cover: Roger Dean , Tim White
- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, (Jun 1997, ed. Kevin J. Anderson, publ. Bantam Spectra, 0-553-57598-8, $6.50, xi+339pp, pb, anth) Cover: Roger Dean , Tim White - [VERIFIED]
Reviews:
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1996) in Locus, #424 May 1996
- Review by Stephen Baxter (1996) in Interzone, #109 July 1996
- Review by Mark R. Kelly (1996) in Locus, #428 September 1996
- Review by Moshe Feder (1996) in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 1996
- Review by Tom Easton (1996) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1996
- Review by Brian Thomsen (1996) in Dragon Magazine, November 1996 - Issue #235
- Review by John Deakins (1997) in Absolute Magnitude, Spring 1997
- Review by Robert M. Price (1997) in Crypt of Cthulhu, #96 Lammas 1997