Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds is a sequel to H. G. Wells's science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds", written by Manly Wade Wellman and his son Wade Wellman, and published in 1975. It is a pastiche crossover which combines H. G. Wells's extraterrestrial invasion story with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger stories. The book is composed of stories originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". The story consists of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Professor Challenger in London during the Martian
The War of the Worlds (radio drama) because "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", an unsponsored CBS cultural program with a relatively small audience, ran at the same time as the NBC Red Network's popular "Chase and Sanborn Hour" featuring ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. At the time, many Americans assumed that a significant number of "Chase and Sanborn" listeners changed stations when the first comic sketch ended and a musical number by Nelson Eddy began and then tuned in "The War of the Worlds" after the opening announcements, but historian A. Brad Schwartz, after studying hundreds of letters from people who heard "The War of the Worlds", as