Battle of the ironclads, the Merrimack vs. the Monitor
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Grahame Baker-Smith’s 2017 Folio illustration for War of the Worlds.
Grahame Baker-Smith’s 2017 Folio illustration for War of the Worlds.
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Introduction
It was perhaps the most famous description of a (space) alien in English literature. The narrator felt an “utter terror [grip] him” as a thing from a nightmare emerged slowly, slowly from the pit that its smoking spacecraft had cratered in the Earth. As its body “bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather.” A pair of huge, fathomless dark eyes regarded him intensely, “steadfastly. (more…)
