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Post by krys666 on Sept 7, 2004 20:39:00 GMT
Found this... www.rocketshipvideo.com/reviews/firstmeninthemoon.htmlsorry, but are the "Selentites" the moon creatures? Long time since i've seen it and not read the book yet(  ). Am i right in thinking there are versions of Wotw with these Selentites in? I've heard somewhere that there is a version with humans battling the martians and Selentites for the moon. And anoter where humans use those spheres that rise out of the plannet thanks to a special paint, to get revenge on the martian...  Sorry but my mind is a blank with all the school work... I thought the film was good. |
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Post by Killraven on Sept 7, 2004 21:52:49 GMT
Maybe a story like this came up in the WOTW Marvel Comics?  Can anyone confirm this? |
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Post by Bayne on Sept 8, 2004 0:00:35 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]It is remeniscent of some of the ideas from Steve Dismukes long dormant WotW roleplying game site.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Sept 8, 2004 0:15:44 GMT
Sounds like an amalgamtion of different Wells' works..martians, cavorite spheres,etc. That wasn't anything to do with the 'Mad Dogs and Martians' RPG was it? I think it was part of a series called 'Victoria Tech: The Queens army Vs The Martians' or something like that and came out in the early '90s. I think I may have read something about it on the 'Net a few years back but a quick search today didn't reveal much worth reporting. I have a sneaky suspicion that the basic idea was something like that. Definately rings a bell anyway.
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Post by Lensman on Mar 30, 2005 10:00:21 GMT
sorry, but are the "Selentites" the moon creatures? Close, it's "selenites". (Selene is a moon goddess.) Am i right in thinking there are versions of Wotw with these Selentites in? I've heard somewhere that there is a version with humans battling the martians and Selentites for the moon. And anoter where humans use those spheres that rise out of the plannet thanks to a special paint, to get revenge on the martian... Sounds like the description of the forthcoming novel The Martian War, or perhaps the old sequel to WotW, serialized in 1898: Edison's Conquest of Mars (not by Wells). I'm pretty sure neither have ever been made into a movie, tho... |
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Post by Geis on Jul 5, 2005 18:31:15 GMT
I've heard somewhere that there is a version with humans battling the martians and Selentites for the moon.
The recent release "The Martian War" by Kevin. J. Anderson writing as Gabriel Mesta has the Martians invading the moon centuries ago, collecting up Selenites for food and as slaves.
And "Edison's Conquest of Mars", though billed as a sequel, was really a completely unrelated story that was reworked to follow on to Wells's work. The "Martians" were just big-headed giants, not the alien creatures Wells created.
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Post by Lensman on Jul 8, 2005 5:04:46 GMT
And "Edison's Conquest of Mars", though billed as a sequel, was really a completely unrelated story that was reworked to follow on to Wells's work. The "Martians" were just big-headed giants, not the alien creatures Wells created. Thanks for the info! A friend of mine told me the Martians in it were humanoid, not Wells' Martians at all, and I wondered why the author would make such a radical change if it was spoze to be a sequel to WotW. |
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jul 8, 2005 13:28:19 GMT
They are - one of the illustrations is reproduced in 'The H G Wells Scrapbook', and they look like giant humanoids in skin-tight black rubber jumpsuits. Awful! Meanwhile, someone's republished it, details here: www.cgpublishing.com/Books/Edison.htmlThe new cover...  ...appears to retain the look of the original, incredibly phallic, spacecraft...  |
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Post by Lensman on Jul 8, 2005 22:42:16 GMT
the look of the original, incredibly phallic, spacecraft... OMG! You weren't kidding were you! |
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Post by Gnorn on Jul 9, 2005 10:38:54 GMT
That actually sounds like a very interesting read! And now we know where the backstory to Space: 1889 came from.
-Gnorn
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Post by Gerkinman on Jul 16, 2005 15:19:14 GMT
haha, Mars is conquered by giant space penises lol
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Post by Leatherhead on Feb 12, 2006 18:09:53 GMT
Kryss, the book you are refering to is the Martina War by Gabriel Mesta. In it, a young Wells and his girlfriend accidentally get launched to the moon in Dr. Cavor's Sphere. Upon arriving it turns out that the inhabitants of the moon, the Seleonites, are the arthropodic creatures the Martians used for nourishment in Wells' story War of the Worlds. As it turns out, in Mesta's novel, the Martians have long since invaded Earth's moon and taken the Seleonites as a food supply. Learning that the Martians are about to invade Earth they re-enter the Cavorite Sphere and are on their wa to Mars to try to stop an invasion.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Feb 12, 2006 19:35:55 GMT
I don't think it was, Leatherhead.
I say that because I don't think the book by Gabriel Mesta (Kevin J.Anderson) was out in September 2004 when Krys first posted about this.
Unless he read a synopsis.. I saw one quite a while before the thing was released.
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Post by Leatherhead on Feb 12, 2006 20:11:09 GMT
I could be mistaken of course.
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Post by Luperis on Feb 13, 2006 0:50:39 GMT
It could well have been a synopsis... I too remember seeing one quite a while before the books release. I'm also sure that I have read these Ideas somewhere else though... but I can't remember where.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Feb 13, 2006 9:33:59 GMT
Actually, it sounds like a very similar plot to that in 'The Space Machine'.
Substitute Mr Cavor's Sphere for The Time Machine, the Moon for Mars and the Selenite Bipeds for the Martian Bipeds.
I just read Kevin J Anderson's story in 'Global Dispatches'. Not bad but he has an annoying habit of using Wells' lines in his story. For no apparent reason. I don't rate him that much, which is why I am curious about 'The Martian War', but I get a sneaky suspicion I may find it irritating.
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Post by Luperis on Feb 13, 2006 9:51:35 GMT
Now that you mention it, it is kind of similar... that might be what I was thinking of. Good to know.  |
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Can anyone confirm this? 
