The War of the Worlds News

Science fiction! It's scary! It's weird! It's...sciencey! Now, there are plenty of devoted readers out there who love to sit down with their crime novels and their lawyer stories and their thrillers, and that's all well and good.

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"No one would have believed in the middle of the 20th century that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than Man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely joined their plans against us." Those ...

H ollywood loves the destruction of humanity, or at least the threat of it. Last year brought us "The Happening," in which Mother Nature herself turns against us, and "Wall-E," in which we long ago fled a world overflowing with our own refuse.

Hollywood has already dipped into its sci-fi vault for 21st-century remakes of 'The War of the Worlds,' 'Planet of the Apes' and 'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' so what's next on the revival list? Here's an ...

"Klaatu barada nikto." Science-fiction buffs will recognize this as the phrase alien Klaatu teaches his earthling friend Helen in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," meant to prevent the menacing robot Gort from ...