War of the Worlds

Although 19th-century science fiction often reflected the bias of European colonialism, the 1898 novel “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells famously imagined a reverse scenario in which terrorized Europeans are victims of advanced Martian technology. The Brazilian artist Henrique Alvim-Corrêa (1876–1910) produced this illustration and many others for a limited edition French translation, ”La guerre des mondes,” published in Brussels, Belgium, in 1906. Photo by Open Culture, LLC