The War of the Worlds | The Value of History: Appraisals & Consultations

H.G. Wells’s Copyright Set to Expire

Charles Keller August 11, 2016

I have served as Webmaster for the H.G. Wells Society since 2002. One of my responsibilities is to forward email inquiries to the society secretary for consideration and distribution. I’ve seen a lot of different kinds of inquiries through the years,…
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Star Wars Awakens: Force or Farce?

Charles Keller November 22, 2015

Okay. As a nine-year-old kid – and long before I learned to appreciate Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as the truest work of science fiction cinema possible, Star Wars was a really big deal to…
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‘War,’ Panic and a One-Hour Broadcast: A Short Study

Charles Keller April 12, 2015

(Originally published in Trendline Magazine, November 2000, updated April 2015) ‘FAKE RADIO WAR STIRS TERROR THROUGH U.S.,” or so went the headline on Halloween day 1938. The previous evening, a 23 year old Orson Welles brought the famous H.G. Wells…
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