independentJun 14▶

#17 THE THREE CENTURY FRANCHISE - Sound, Light & Frequency

Few science-fiction stories have had a stranger afterlife than The War of the Worlds. H.G. Wells first launched his Martian invasion in the 19th century as a devastating reversal of empire: what if humanity was not the conqueror, but the conquered? What if something colder, smarter, and more technologically advanced looked at us the way powerful nations had looked at the people they considered beneath them? In this episode of Sound, Light & Frequency, Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman trace how...