The War of the Worlds

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Referenced as a comparison to Heart of Darkness — both transpose the horrors of European colonialism to Britain. Just as Wells imagines an invasion of England, Conrad imagines armed Africans appearing on the road between Deal and Gravesend, catching yokels to carry heavy loads, to illustrate the reality of colonial violence.

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Described as one of the great anti-imperial novels, mentioned because it references the Tasmanian genocide at the beginning

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Called 'one of the great novels about the First World War' despite being written in the late 19th century; discussed how Wells compared the Martian destruction of London to British treatment of Tasmanians