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Grim versions of H.G. Wells explored man's great fears

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19881021
Author:Peter Keough

Fifty years ago on Halloween Eve, H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds was broadcast over the radio by Orson Welles. Thousands panicked, believing the martian invasion for the real thing. The same story is being dramatized in a new TV series ("War of the Worlds" airing at 7 p.m. Fridays on WPWR-Channel 50), and the producers perhaps are hoping for a toned-down version of the same response.

What is profoundly moving about the works of H. G. Wells is not his insights into human and social folly, but his envisioning of deep and archetypal nightmares. His science fiction classics consist of ...

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