War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches is a 1996 science fiction anthology, edited by Kevin J. Anderson and published by American company Bantam Spectra. It is a tribute to H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds"; each story envisions a famous individual's reactions to the Martian invasion and the impact of the invasion on a different part of the world. Several of the stories tie into other works of fiction; Anderson would also later go on to write "The Martian War", a novel that also presented Wells' Martian invasion from the viewpoints of
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