19:3919:39, 28 November 2023diffhist−153
HMS Thunder Child
→Adaptations: The assertion that war of the worlds is set in 1897 is false. The book quite clearly states in the opening paragraph that the attack too place in the early 20th century, and several quoted astronomical events (Earth/Mars oppositions) that occurred in 1894, 1896 and 1899 are directly cited (as well as a further one, possibly in reference to the 1901 opposition is also referenced). Ware of the Worlds was first published in 1897, but it was not told as a contemporaneous account.
19:3919:39, 28 November 2023diffhist−153
HMS Thunder Child
→Adaptations: The assertion that war of the worlds is set in 1897 is false. The book quite clearly states in the opening paragraph that the attack too place in the early 20th century, and several quoted astronomical events (Earth/Mars oppositions) that occurred in 1894, 1896 and 1899 are directly cited (as well as a further one, possibly in reference to the 1901 opposition is also referenced). Ware of the Worlds was first published in 1897, but it was not told as a contemporaneous account.