The Martians Are Coming

Author : Alan Gallop
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445612534
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Martians are Coming! written by Alan Gallop and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orson Welles' 1938 radio production of The War of the Worlds is now remembered as one of the most sublime, if accidental. hoaxes ever concocted. This is what really happened.

Author : Meghan McCarthy
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
ISBN 13 : 0385736789
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aliens are Coming! written by Meghan McCarthy and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture-book account of one of the most famous pieces of radio history! * “Sandwiched between a look at Depression-era radios and a set of fanciful period advertisements, McCarthy delivers a semi-serious account of the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, illustrating both passages from the script and briefly told descriptions of widespread panic with smudgy cartoon scenes featuring bug-eyed monsters and equally bug-eyed people. The author closes with a substantial note that analyzes the broadcast’ immediate and long-term effects, points out that the announcers repeatedly admitted that they were presenting a drama during the broadcast, mentions several later revivals here and internationally and notes the response of H.G. Wells himself to the original production. She has also set up an invitingly designed Web site with an array of relevant links.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred An ALA–ALSC Notable Children’s Book A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year An IRA–CBC Children’s Choice A Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice A 2006 New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing

Author : A. Brad Schwartz
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 0809031639
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadcast Hysteria written by A. Brad Schwartz and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call the police. Some even fled their homes. But the hair-raising broadcast was not a real news bulletin-it was Orson Welles's adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds. In Broadcast Hysteria, A. Brad Schwartz boldly retells the story of Welles's famed radio play and its impact. Did it really spawn a "wave of mass hysteria," as The New York Times reported? Schwartz is the first to examine the hundreds of letters sent to Orson Welles himself in the days after the broadcast, and his findings challenge the conventional wisdom. Few listeners believed an actual attack was under way. But even so, Schwartz shows that Welles's broadcast became a major scandal, prompting a different kind of mass panic as Americans debated the bewitching power of the radio and the country's vulnerability in a time of crisis. When the debate was over, American broadcasting had changed for good, but not for the better. As Schwartz tells this story, we observe how an atmosphere of natural disaster and impending war permitted broadcasters to create shared live national experiences for the first time. We follow Orson Welles's rise to fame and watch his manic energy and artistic genius at work in the play's hurried yet innovative production. And we trace the present-day popularity of "fake news" back to its source in Welles's show and its many imitators. Schwartz's original research, gifted storytelling, and thoughtful analysis make Broadcast Hysteria a groundbreaking new look at a crucial but little-understood episode in American history.

Author : Robert E. Bartholomew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486716
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Martians Have Landed! written by Robert E. Bartholomew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to the 21st century, including hoaxes perpetrated via newspapers, radio, television and cyberspace. From the 1835 batmen on the Moon hoax to more recent bird flu scares and Hurricane Katrina myths, this book explores hoaxes that highlight the impact of the media on our lives and its tendency to sensationalize. Most of the hoaxes covered occurred in the United States, though incidents from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia are featured as well. Several are global in scope, revealing the power global media wields.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
ISBN 13 : 1467757799
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War of the Worlds written by H. G. Wells and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a meteorite lands in Surrey, the locals don't know what to make of it. But as Martians emerge and begin killing bystanders, it quickly becomes clear—England is under attack. Armed soldiers converge on the scene to ward off the invaders, but meanwhile, more Martian cylinders land on Earth, bringing reinforcements. As war breaks out across England, the locals must fight for their lives, but life on Earth will never be the same. This is an unabridged version of one of the first fictional accounts of extraterrestrial invasion. H. G. Wells's military science fiction novel was first published in book form in 1898, and is considered a classic of English literature.

Author : Marion Carlson
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496910427
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Run duck hide!" The Martians Are Coming? written by Marion Carlson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's story about aboy and a dog who go for a walk and have a quite an adventure, or did they?

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451678193
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Martian Chronicles written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.

Author : Scott Washburn
Publisher : Winged Hussar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0997094613
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Martian War written by Scott Washburn and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the defeat of the Martian invasion of Britain, a new threat to humanity lands in the American west. President Roosevelt musters the captains of industry and leading scientists to find a way to turn back the Martian tide

Author : Fredric Brown
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575102616
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martians, Go Home written by Fredric Brown and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THEY WERE GREEN, THEY WERE LITTLE, THEY WERE BALD AS BILLIARD BALLS AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! Luke Devereaux was a science fiction writer, holed up in a desert shack waiting for inspiration. He was the first to see a Martian - but he certainly wasn't the last. It was estimated that one billion of them had arrived - one to every three human beings on Earth. Obnoxious green creatures who could be seen and heard (but not harmed) and who probed private sex lives as shamelessly as they exposed government secrets. No one knew why they had come. No one knew how to make them go away - except perhaps, Luke Devereaux. Unfortunately he was going slightly bananas, so it wouldn't be easy. But for a science fiction writer nothing was impossible...

Author : Robert Lowndes
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 161210679X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Martians are Coming written by Robert Lowndes and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the inebriated experimenters invited the Martians to come to Earth, they didn’t really mean it, but when the Martians took them at their word and sent a thousand armed ships. . . .