![]() ![]() ![]() Science fiction helps us deal with science fact: a lesson from Terminator's killer robots And so while laying waste to London, they inhale a bug a simple bacteria “against which their systems were unprepared” and so suffered a “death that must have seemed to them as incomprehensible as any death could be”. They had made the Red Planet disease-free but forgotten about germ theory. The Martians, however, had become too intelligent for their own good. The “social body” of organisation – police, army, government – suffers “swift liquefaction”. ![]() Upper-class women arm themselves as they cross the country, because traditional deference has gone up in smoke. The narrator describes a breakdown of law and order, and undergoes something of a breakdown himself. From these “whatever is combustible flashes into flame”, metal liquifies, glass melts and water “explodes into steam”.įleeing like rats from a burning ship, panic spreads like a contagion. From the cylinders come dozens of Martians, each operating a three-legged metal “fighting-machine” that attacks London’s helpless population by means of a “heat ray”. An advance party arrives inside metal cylinders shot from giant cannons stationed on Mars. ![]()
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