War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches


War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches is a 1996 science fiction anthology, edited by Kevin J. Anderson and published by American company Bantam Spectra. It is a tribute to H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds; each story envisions a famous individual's reactions to the Martian invasion and the impact of the invasion on a different part of the world.
Several of the stories tie into other works of fiction; Anderson would also later go on to write Martian War">Martian (War of the Worlds)">Martian War, a novel that also presented Wells' Martian invasion from the viewpoints of Wells and several other fictional and historical characters.

Reception

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Polish science fiction editor and critic, Maciej Parowski, positively commented on the anthology in his 2011 book Małpy Pana Boga – Słowa, noting that it was a well executed difficult endeavour, difficult because the writers were limited by the theme. He singled out stories by Tiedemann and Wolverton as particularly notable.

Impact

Global Dispatches was one of the works consulted by Stephen Baxter for his own sequel to The War of the Worlds, The [Massacre of Mankind].

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