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Halloween Month rolls along here at Balladeer’s Blog with a repost of my 2014 review of a Washington Irving tale. Not The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but Irving’s sci-fi tale that deserves to be associated with Halloween at least as much as Orson Welles’ radio adaptation of War of the Worlds long ago.
Washington Irving giving us his sexiest come-hither stare.
THE MEN OF THE MOON (1809) – Several decades before H.G. Wells would use his fictional invasion from Mars in War of the Worlds as an allegorical condemnation of colonialism the American author Washington Irving beat him to it. In Irving’s work The Men of the Moon a technologically advanced race from the moon conquered the Earth and treated its inhabitants the way that European and Muslim colonialists often treated the indigenous inhabitants of the areas they subjugated.
Irving, with tongue-in-cheek, called his invaders from the moon “Lunatics” and depicted them as green-skinned humanoids with tails and one eye each instead of two. Continue reading
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