[014] Social Science Talks: War of the Worlds, by HG Wells

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“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”

Bleddyn chose War of the Worlds for this month, and we decided to deal with the book rather than the musical, which was his original idea. What ARE the chances of anything coming from Mars? How is the novel symptomatic of colonialism? And whatever happened to the Torpedo Ram? Join us as we discuss these questions and more.

https://ia902703.us.archive.org/29/items/socialsciencetalks/WarOfTheWorldsFull.mp3

Contributors
Matthew Campbell
Alex Hoseason
Charlotte Botfield
Bleddyn Bowen