First published illustrations for "The War of the Worlds", 1897

[Pyan]

The World's First Illustrations for H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1897) - Flashbak

At least the illustrator knew how many legs a 'tripod' should have...

 

[BAYLOR]

Wonderful stuff Pyan.

 

[Toby Frost]

This is a productive morning in the world of SFF illustration!

If I remember rightly, Wells was unhappy in the way that some of the earliest illustrations portrayed the tripods, and made a comment in the novel that some of the earlier depictions had been inaccurate.

 

[mosaix]

"Idle Loafers"

Love it. Can't remember the last time I heard someone use the 'loafer' but it's a great word. Must try and get it into a 75 / 100 / 300 challenge.

 

[Vladd67]

"Idle Loafers"

Love it. Can't remember the last time I heard someone use the 'loafer' but it's a great word. Must try and get it into a 75 / 100 / 300 challenge.

Was going to says something similar. The term is used a lot in Sherlock Holmes stories, I just wondered when it fell out of use.

 

[Toby Frost]

I remember being somewhat surprised when Thomas Hardy used "village tosspots" to mean much the same thing in The Mayor Of Casterbridge!

 

[Vladd67]

How many English teachers have had to explain that term to a class I wonder?

 

[Guttersnipe]

I used to have a book with those illustrations. It contained the novel as well as the script and audio for Orson Wells's prank radio story.

 

[CupofJoe]

There are some wonderful illustrations by Henrique Alvim Corrêa

Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)

Illustrations by a little-known Brazilian artist for the first French translation of H. G. Wells’ science-fiction classic.

publicdomainreview.org

 

[Ursa major]

Must try and get it into a 75 / 100 / 300 challenge.

Sounds as if this would be a shoo-in....

I used to have a book with those illustrations. It contained the novel as well as the script and audio for Orson Wells's prank radio story.

I have a CD of the Wells play, bought at a Boynton Beach mall when my colleague was looking for gifts for his child before we headed back to the UK after our meetings were over. (I hadn't expected to see anything I'd want to buy, so this was a lucky find, particularly as this was in the early 90s, when one couldn't just search the web for such things.)