Doctor Clayton Forrester (The War of the Worlds) on life, only to suffer a fatal heart attack. However, Dr. Blackwood later states in the early episode "Thy Kingdom Come" that Sylvia's mental collapse transpired after Forrester's death, indicating that he had died quite some time before the TV series began. Doctor Clayton Forrester (The War of the Worlds) Doctor Clayton Forrester is a fictional character in George Pal's 1953 science fiction film "The War of the Worlds", the first film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel of the same name. The Forrester character is played by actor Gene Barry. The film takes several liberties with the novel's
Martian (The War of the Worlds) articles in "ERBZine", the official Burroughs fanzine. In Ian McDonald's short story "The Queen of Night's Aria", a sequel to "The War of the Worlds" published in the 2013 George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois anthology "Old Mars", the Wells Martians are named the Uliri. Martian (The War of the Worlds) Little about the Martians is definitive, the story being told by a first-person narrator. The Martians are described as octopus-like creatures: the "body" consisting of a disembodied head nearly across, having two eyes; a v-shaped, beak-like mouth; and two branches each of eight 'almost whip-like' tentacles, grouped around