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 a draper. Trained as a scientist, he was able to relate his experiences of struggle to Darwin's idea of a world of struggle; but perceived science as a rational system, which extended beyond traditional ideas of race, class and religious notions, and in fiction challenged the use of science to explain political and social norms of the day. Good and evil appear relative in "The War of the Worlds", and the defeat of the Martians has an entirely material cause: the action of microscopic bacteria. An insane clergyman is important in the novel, but his attempts to relate the invasion