![]() ![]() Then there's the use of Holmes and Challenger to fill in some backstory from Wells' tome, though within the text Wells' tale is considered a fiction of real events and treated in a slightly derogatory manner. ![]() There is the attempt to make the science of Wells' story more palatable by suggesting the Martians weren't from Mars, because as modern day readers know, there is no life on Mars (or is there?). ![]() ![]() Holmes and Challenger spend a lot of time staring into the Crystal Egg, and running around the countryside in the manner of the narrator of Wells' original tale, but very little is added to make it more flavoursome. What comes out of it is, as another reviewer points out, a pretty uneventful story. The high concept, and possibly one that might have inspired Mr Moore's second LoEG volume, is that Sherlock Holmes is caught up in the War of the Worlds, by way of the "Crystal Egg" from Wells' oeuvre, with aid from Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger. ![]()
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