Scarlet Traces: An Anthology Based on H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds

It is the dawn of the twentieth century.

Following the Martians' failed invasion of Earth, the British Empire has seized their technology and unlocked its secrets for themselves. It is a Golden Age of discovery, adventure, culture, invention – and of domination, and rebellion.

Scarlet Traces reveals a world of ant-headed nightmares; vacuum salesmen; war machines; deadly secrets; clockwork marvels; and Sherlock Holmes, T. S. Eliot and Thomas Edison as you've never seen them before…

Contents
∙ “Introduction” by Ian Edginton
∙ “Going Up the Blue” by Stephen Baxter
∙ “Something Sweet in the Superstitions” by I. N. J. Culbard
∙ “The Martian Waste Land” by Adam Roberts
∙ “The Menagerie” by Emma Beeby
∙ “The Adventure of the Wheezing Man” by James Lovegrove
∙ “Voice for a Generation” by Nathan Duck
∙ “Spitting Blood” by Mark Morris
∙ “The Alarmist” by Dan Whitehead
∙ “Last Shot” by Chris Roberson
∙ “The Mechanical Marionette Mob” by Maura McHugh
∙ “Wonderful Things” by Jonathan Green
∙ “Red Frame, White Heat” by Andrew Lane