is war of the worlds fiction or nonfiction?
im scared it will one day happen to us. is it fiction or nonfiction?
- brittany lynn
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April 9th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Honestly What Do U Think??
April 10th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
its fiction
April 11th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Jesus Christ…
April 13th, 2009 at 2:43 am
It’s fiction.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
unfortunately nonfiction
chin
April 17th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1898.
Depicting an invasion of the earth by extraterrestrials (Martians, specifically), the novel is commonly regarded as being the first to depict such a disaster. Since then, The War of the Worlds has entered popular culture, with a vast number of books, films, TV series and comic books using themes from this book, whether acknowledged or not. Adaptations have tended to move the date of the invasion but the basic theme has remained the same. 2005 witnessed a noticeable rise of interest in the story with the release of three different film adaptations, several DVDs, and re-release of the popular musical interpretation, as well as a number of comics and books related to the original story.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:41 am
ok, if there were giant machines buried in the earth, dont you think we would have found them by now?
April 21st, 2009 at 4:29 am
Fiction is any literature describing something that has never happened. Whether or not it will happen in the future is not part of the definition. Since the Earth has never been invaded by martians, War of the Worlds is fiction.
As for the actual question of whether it will happen in the future, the answer is no. Many probes have been sent to Mars, and we know by now that it is very cold, very dry and has no technological civilizations living on it (if there’s any life on it at all it would be bacteria living deep under the surface, hardly the kind of organism to launch space bullets at Earth). Also, considering that we’ve been listening for alien radio signals for decades and still haven’t found any, it is unlikely that any other technological civilizations exist within at least a few dozen light years of us. Finally, even if aliens do land, it is unlikely that they will attack us, and if they do attack is it is unlikely that we’ll have time to realize what’s going on before we’re dead.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
It is fiction, it’s just a made up story. Non fiction is a true story.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Get a grip. It’s fiction.
April 30th, 2009 at 3:52 am
It’s fiction.
If it does happen, it won’t happen that way.
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
It is fiction. Great movie but still absurd. An advanced race of space aliens burying machinery underground for a million years so they can come back and take over the world with it? The original story made much more sense.
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:26 am
H. G. Wells’ masterpiece is clearly a work of fiction. Now, of course there are elements of it that may come to pass, but that doesn’t change the intent of the original piece.
In other words, just because it could become non-fiction, doesn’t mean it’s not still fiction.
May 4th, 2009 at 3:03 am
FICTION AS IN MAKE BELIEVE, IS JESUS CHRIST YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR?
GOD BLESS
May 4th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Its fiction. Very well written novel.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Ehem… Thats how people get roped into beleiving in the BIBLE. Just a tad bit confusion. Im pretty sure if you contact the author of book he will give you what your looking for. Im guessing …. No. Never read it, but (maybe) it could happen, anything is possible.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:31 am
Bro, the movie is nonficiton, did you see on T.V or ever heard of it studying in school that half the world was nearly blown up, you and half of the other yahoo people who ask these dumb questions have to just log off your account and delete it
May 9th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Fiction.
Interesting fact- it is because of the War of the Worlds that we have mandatory Station Identification breaks. War of the Owrlds was originally aired during a radio show and there were no breaks or interupptions the entire time. Many people really believed that it was really happening and so it caused mass chaos. After that they started requiring stations to break in every so often and identify themselves.
May 12th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Seeing as how it’s classified under science fiction there’s your answer.
Unless this is a rhetorical question.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
It’s non-fiction and is happening right now on the Earth with different characters [humans v. humans] and settings.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:22 am
What, you didn’t hear the whole film? The whole plot was about how it can never happen to us!