Labels: text | machine | screenshot OCR: ARTISTS DREAM OF MARS H.G. WELLS # CINEMA & MUSIC He hears a kind of howling, "a sobbing alternation of two notes, "Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla," keeping on perpetually." He scrambles up a rampart and stands on its crest; below him he sees "a mighty space ... with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter-places. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians-dead !- slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared ... slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put on this earth." So the mighty, savage Martians were eventually overcome by simple germs. The refugees can now return and begin rebuilding their world. Earthlings can now rest easy, but as Wells suggests at the end of his tale, the Martians may yet be forced to try their luck again, on Venus ... MARS BETAT
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