War of the Worlds: Global dispatches

In H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds", the fictional dispatches from a London newspaper reporter describe battles taking place around the globe. Now, readers experience the Martian invasion from other locales--as imagined by the genre's most gifted writers. Each story is told from the point-of-view of a historical or literary figure at the turn of the century, from Rudyard Kipling in India to the Dowager Empress in China.