Brave New World (Volumes 1-3)

[Refugee]

Just read on wilepedia that the depth of what Wells wrote about the brave new world and the eventual rising up against the martians implies he thought about this as an ending.

However true or not this is, how cool could that have been. I have always loved the ending to be honest, origonal, realistic and makes the title of the book a nifty play on words but I would have loved the story to go on. There might have been more books:

The Coming of the Martians
The Earth Under the Martians
The Surviving Cast
Beacon in The Red
Marching into the Sun

Or something like that, not mycrappy titles but something like that, book after book, t'would have been great. See what the Martians made of the Earth, of the middle class lap-dogs etc.

What do you think?

The writer of the tripods clearly went for a similar ending to kick start their plot but left out the farming humanity part and the martians.

[Poyks]

I thought John Christopher had gone for the post humanity farming stage pretty well. He could deny it perhaps, but I always thought of his books as a great alternative War sequel.

[Refugee]

Well I was only young when I saw the tripods, I must have forgotten the farming, I remember capping.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]I suggested a long time backi an alternative timeline that had the Morlocks and Eloi being the result of the Martian Invasion, the Eloi descended from the farmed humans and the Morlocks...

It waters down the class conflict message of Time Machine but I still like the idea and will use it in a story or two eventually.
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