H.G. Wells's Classic Novel, Animated

[beamjockey]

Phil Plait pointed out a nifty collection of covers for various editions of War of the Worlds, compiled by "Dr. Zeus" and friends. 337 covers, 110 years.

I've prepared an animated summary.

(Note: this Dr. Zeus is not the Dr. Zeus who plays with Tesla coils, but a different Dr. Zeus.)

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Does the image show up here in this comment?

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

Not for me, sadly.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Not for me on the home machine, either. But pasting in the "embedding" Picasa recommends only gave me the first frame of the GIF. I need to figure out how to do this.

(The file is very large, over 300 images at 116 by 171 pixels, for a total of 6.2 megabytes. So I am reluctant to stick it right in an LJ posting; I tried putting it behind a cut without success.)

Let's try this:

From Odds & Ends

slideshow

[jimf42.livejournal.com]

shows up very well in the comment...nice slideshow!

[min0taur.livejournal.com]

Looks great in the comment. And though you probably know about this already, if you Google "The Woking Martian," you'll find pix of the sculptures of a Martian tripod and cylinder that were commissioned and set up in Woking in 1998 to mark the centennial of one of my favorite books of all time (the 1962 Popular Library edition was my intro to it in print, and I see you've got the cover -- well done!)

WoW was also on a 1958 LP of "Classics Illustrated" Verne and Wells stories adapted for a radio-drama-style presentation called "Space Stories and Sounds" -- cheesy by today's standards, but as a beady-eyed kid, I'd never encountered the stories before, and was instantly hooked. There's also a ca.-2005 movie by Pendragon Films, a British production, done as a period piece; it beat the Spielberg blockbuster into production.

[charlie-meadows.livejournal.com]

Is it possible to determine which SF classic has the *largest* number of covers? (I'd imagine something of Verne's is way up there.) Are there any novels from after 1940 that have hit, say, 100 covers yet? 200?