Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898 novel)

Edison's Conquest of Mars is a semi-scientific romance novel by Garrett P. Serviss that uses then-contemporary public figures as characters, notably the title character Thomas Edison, and acts as a sequel to H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds (or, more accurately, the unauthorised revised edition of that novel, serialised as Fighters from Mars), detailing the human response to a failed Martian invasion and the repurposing of alien technology to take the retaliatory expedition into space and against Mars itself. The story was first serialised in the New York Journal during 1898, only later being republished in a book edition by Carcosa House in 1947.