War of the worlds

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Dave Monroe linked us to:

            Was there any science fiction for him to read 
            in Arabic? A search dating from 1972 to the 
            present of the Index Translationem, Unesco's 
            register of translated books, reveals a 
            reasonable amount of classic fantastic fiction 
            in Arabic: The Time Machine, The Invisible 
            Man, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,779530,00.html

. . . .all four book titles (including the name of this thread), Vintage 
Victorian /Edwardian Sci-Fi from the golden age of anarchism . . . 

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