Synopsis: The stories in this anthology are written in the style of (more or less) contemporaries of H. G. Wells: H. G. Wells (Foreword); Teddy Roosevelt (The Roosevelt Dispatches); Percival Lowell (Canals in the Sand); Dowager Empress of China (Foreign Devils); Pablo Picasso (Blue Period); Henry James (The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James); Winston Churchill & H. Rider Haggard (The True Tale of the Final Battle...); Texas Rangers (Night of the Cooters); Albert Einstein (Determinism and the Martian War...); Rudyard Kipling (Soldier of the Queen); E. R. Burroughs (Mars: The Home Front); Joseph Pulitzer (A Letter From St. Louis); Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection); Jules Verne (Paris Conquers All); H. P. Lovecraft (To Mars and Providence); Mark Twain (Roughing It...); Joseph Conrad (To See the World End); Jack London (After a Lean Winter); Emily Dickinson (The Soul Selects Her Own Society); Jules Verne (Afterword)