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Future Wars: 1900

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HOW TO KILL THOSE DEGENERATE BRAINY ALIENS, 1900-STYLE
An appreciation of George Griffith’s “Stories of Other Worlds”
by Martin S. Kottmeyer

FEW of the popular writers working at the start of the 20th century are remembered today apart from H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. Of them, George Griffith’s career could be regarded as having taken the greatest fall. He was among the most prolific of writers and probably made more money in his career than H.G. Wells, a matter that exasperated Wells in some measure since Griffith seemed clearly his inferior. He made his mark mainly for writing stories about future wars, a common theme of late 1800s fiction.

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