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"Does it open a new horizon for my thinking? Does it lead me to think new kinds of thoughts, that I would not otherwise perhaps have thought at all? These qualities are what [make] science fiction ...unique."
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A terrifying realization of the horror of mechanized warfare, from the generation before WWI. Also, this is an interesting use of a natural reference, that the robot used appendages like tentacles, as opposed to clumsy mechanical actuators.
In 1895, scientist Giovanni Schiaparelli reported seeing channels or grooves in the surface of Mars. Translations of the word he used - canali - made people think that there were canals on Mars. Schiaparelli himself published theories about life on Mars.
In thinking about what sort of image that this would conjure in the minds of turn-of-the-century people, take a look at this illustration from a 1906 edition:
![]() Click to see a description of the Martian heat ray. See more tripod illustrations here. Thanks to Simon for the quote for this one! Comment/Join this discussion ( 3 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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