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  1. Scottty

    Books The Military Response to the Martians (War of the Worlds).

    Regarding the unclear descriptions of the Martian technology, that always came across as quite realistic to me. The narrator is an ordinary man getting brief looks at devices based on engineering principles very different from those that he's familiar with. The Clarke quote about sufficiently...
  2. Scottty

    Books The Military Response to the Martians (War of the Worlds).

    Presumably, if they used the same weaponry on their aircraft as on the walkers, they would have the same sort of power-source. All of the depictions I've seen make it look rather compact - the "heat ray" projector was a lantern-like device carried on one of the tentacles. That's assuming they...
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