A review by glitterwar
Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

3.0

I finally gave up on this one. As fanfic of War of the Worlds, it is entertaining, but I kept putting it down and abandoning it for months. It is, as mentioned in the Cracked article that turned me onto it, the precursor to many of the common terms we hear in science fiction movies/books/TV/graphic novels today ("Reverse the polarity!", Ray guns, and the like), and features a veritable cast of characters out of the greatest minds of the 19th century (nevermind that Tesla and Edison would have strangled each other less than a week into the journey), but I didn't feel compelled to keep reading.