The War of the Worlds: Next Century The War of the Worlds: Next Century The War of the Worlds: Next Century () is a 1981 Polish film by Piotr Szulkin which is inspired by the classical novel of H. G. Wells, "The War of the Worlds". It was immediately banned by the Polish government upon its release because it depicted political parallels with the political context of the country at that time. It only received its premiere on 20 February 1983. The film starts from the position close to the literary inspiration suggested in the title, but rather than developing it in the same manner as the
The War of the Worlds Edison leading a counterattack against the invaders on their home soil. Though this is actually a sequel to 'Fighters from Mars', a revised and unauthorised reprint of "The War of the Worlds", they both were first printed in the "Boston Post" in 1898. Lazar Lagin published "Major Well Andyou" in USSR in 1962, an alternative view of events in "The War of the Worlds" from the viewpoint of a traitor. "The War of the Worlds" was reprinted in the United States in 1927, before the Golden Age of science fiction, by Hugo Gernsback in "Amazing Stories". John W. Campbell, another