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Originally Posted by Katsunami
While there are works of HG. Wells that I like, the War of the Worlds is not one of them. Some classics _are_ massively overrated, IMHO. I think that if WotW had been written after 2000, it wouldn't even have been published...
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I agree with your opinion of War of the Worlds as a piece of writing.
But your argument about War of the Worlds no longer being special has the problem of: If War of the Worlds hadn't been published in 1897, there may not have been all the derivative works that eventually created their own genre.
If War of the Worlds was published in 2000 and it was still a whole new thing, it would still seem fresh.