Video: Jeff Wayne - War of the worlds (Live) (Eve of the war)

Herbert George Wells , in addition to being being a pedagogic socialist thinker of the early 20th century, was the father of science fiction, and the cultural implications of his work are numerous. Sure, he ended up a problematic old curmudgeon, increasingly focusing his attentions of the irrevocably broken nature of mankind and his own irritations at his neighbors, but a hundred years later we're still mining the better angels of Wells' lifework. Can you even imagine a movie landscape without aliens invading or medical experiments gone horribly wrong? And what would fans of electronic music, hip-hop or '70s glam [...]