...discountenanced by a study of Mr. Wells's other writings. feeling. "They were heads, merely heads .... Without the body the brain would, of course, become...any of the emotional substratum of the human being." And to these powerful, pitiless intelligences, the human race stands in the same inferior relation...

...not sleep, had no sense of fatigue and were "absolutely without sex." That had become, he tells us, "mere selfish intelligence, without any of the emotional substratum of the human being" (1964, p. 114). Wells establishes the problems created in stories about aliens. They have, generally...

...brains and atrophied bodies suggest a possible human future . . . The narrator goes on to remark that "without the body the brain would, of course, become...any of the emotional substratum of the human being," and thus he makes explicit another dimension of metaphorical significance, this time a specifically...

...bodily organs that endow modern men and women with moods and feelings, the brain of the Martian has become "a mere selfish intelligence, without any of the emotional substratum of the [present-day] human being." The Martians' lack of sexuality has also spared them from "the tumultuous...

...'vampiric feeding'.44 Martian anatomy is 'simple'; the invaders are 'heads - merely heads' that contain a 'mere selfish intelligence, without any of the emotional substratum of the human being' (149, 151). The Martians reduce human bodies to foodstuffs, replacements for their indigenous food...