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
Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds) gods (Hera, Hades, Zeus, Poseidon). In the 2005 movie "Chicken Little", alien tripods attack the Earth. The aliens themselves sit inside the tripods and they are similar to "The War of the Worlds" Martians. In the animated superhero film "Ultimate Avengers 2", a race of aliens called the Chitauri invade Earth. Machines resembling Wells' fighting machines are briefly seen attacking London, as a deliberate homage to "The War of the Worlds". In the 2010 TV movie "High Plains Invaders", a Western film about an alien invasion of the American Wild West in the 1890s, the alien antagonists were inspired by