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'War of the Worlds' invades bookstores
By Leilani Gallardo, USA TODAY

The release of Steven Spielberg's remake of the science-fiction classic War of the Worlds, which opens Wednesday, already is triggering stories about how Orson Welles' radio adaptation on Oct. 30, 1938, incited panic among thousands of listeners who believed aliens had landed in Grovers Mill, N.J.

But before the movie (both the new and the 1953 versions) and before the radio drama, there was H.G. Wells' novel. His book, set in Victorian England and about an invasion from Mars, remains as popular today as when first published in 1898.

Spielberg reimagines Wells' world (Americans rather than Brits are trying to escape ever-more-savvy space invaders), and the film has prompted renewed interest among book publishers:

  • A reprint of the 1960 edition of War of the Worlds, illustrated by celebrated artist Edward Gorey, is being released by New York Review Books ($16.95). "Startlingly up-to-date and is in touch with the most ancient of human fears," editorial director Edwin Franks says of Wells' masterpiece.

  • A 50th-anniversary edition of the American Classics Illustrated comic-book version drawn by Lou Cameron is being published by Jack Lake Productions ($14.99). "We honor the original line art of the original artist and provide enhanced, embellished coloring techniques," company president Jaak Jarve says. With the original panels from 1955 already lost, Jarve says, the comic book's inside drawings had to be scanned and literally retraced by hand using ink on paper.

  • Best Sellers Illustrated is coming out with an updated graphic novel of War of the Worlds ($13.99). Written by Steven Stern and illustrated by Star Trek comics' Arne Starr, it's set in post-9/11 New York. Martians invade but are outsmarted by New Yorkers.



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