Authors Electric

Don't panic... I haven't heard any horrible new rumour that Lockdown is going last quite  that long! But it's interesting to see how science fiction writers often get things uncannily right, sometimes hundreds of years before the actual events become part of our history. So here are three classic reads - one from each of the past three centuries - which are reflected in some way by current events. If you have your own favourites, feel free to add them to the comments below. War of the Worlds by H G Wells (1897) " Yet across the gulf of space intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us..." A tale of Martian invasion that was so realistic when first broadcast over the radio it caused many people to panic, thinking aliens were indeed attacking the Earth. These 19th century Martians land in individual pods and set about building themselves giant metal fighting machines...