War of the Worlds: Mars' Invasion of Earth, Inciting Panic and Inspiring Terror from H.G. Wells to Orson Welles and Beyond

Winner of the 2001 Book of the Year Award by Foreword Magazine for Pop Culture, The War of the Worlds has been revised and updated for this new paperback edition.

Ray Bradbury is the author of more than thirty books. Among his best known works are The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He has written for the theater and cinema-including the screenplay of John Huston's acclaimed film adaptation of Moby Dick-and has been nominated for an Academy Award. He has adapted sixty-five of his short stories for television on Ray Bradbury Theater and won an Emmy for his teleplay of "The Halloween Tree." Mr. Bradbury received the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American letters. His next novel, From the Dust Returned, was published by HarperCollins in 2001. He lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife. Ben Bova has been writing award-winning science fiction, including Moonrise and Mars, and nonfiction, such as Immortality and Space Flight for more than fifty years. President emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Dr. Bova was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000. A former editorial director for Omni Magazine, Dr. Bova's next work of nonfiction, The Story of Light, was published by Sourcebooks in 2002. He lives in Naples, Florida, with his wife, Barbara. John Callaway has been a broadcast journalist for more than forty-three years, working for CBS Radio in Chicago and New York and WBBM-TV, CBS Chicago, before becoming the long-time host of Chicago Tonight on WTTW, Chicago's Public Television station. He is now the host and senior editor of Chicago Stories, the weekly documentary and interview program on WTTW. He is the author of The Thing of It Is. Mr. Callaway lives in Chicago with his wife, Sandy.