Alien Nation Effect

'The most appropriated motif from science fiction was 'Ullya, Ullya, we are the Martians', a version of the Martians' call in Wells' War of the Worlds as they made their inexorable advance on a terrorised London. This phrase was used by the Russian Futurists as a sort of war cry heralding their own advance with that which was radically new and which threatened to destroy the old completely: Khlebnikov used it in 1916 in his 'The Trumpet of the Martians', and Shklovsky picked it up in his opening sally for a programmatic article of 1919 entitled 'On the art of the Revolution' (and elsewhere).'

Katerina Clark, Petersburg