* The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) by Ray Bradbury.

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) and The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.

A chance encounter in a Los Angeles bookstore with the British expatriate writer Christopher Isherwood gave Bradbury the opportunity to put The Martian Chronicles into the hands of a respected critic.

Asia Minor from Turkey released Between Flesh and Devine ( 1981 ), Bacamarte from Brazil released Depois Do Fim ( 1983 ) and Hungarian band Solaris released Marsbéli Krónikák ( Martian Chronicles ) ( 1984 ).

Like Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, The Martian Chronicles follows a " future history " structure.

In an article written shortly before his death, Bradbury said the " John Carter of Mars " books and Harold Foster's 1931 series of Tarzan Sunday comics had such an impact on his life that " The Martian Chronicles would never have happened " otherwise.

In an introduction he wrote for The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury cited the Barsoom stories and Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson as literary influences.

First appeared in The Martian Chronicles.

This is the first story that focuses on a central motif of The Martian Chronicles: the colonization of the Western frontier in the United States.

It first appeared in The Martian Chronicles.

First appeared in The Martian Chronicles.

First appeared in The Martian Chronicles.

First appeared in The Martian Chronicles.

This is the only full-length story in The Martian Chronicles that had not previously appeared in another publication.

This story appeared only in The Silver Locusts, the British edition of The Martian Chronicles, the 1974 edition from The Heritage Press, the September 1979 illustrated trade edition from Bantam Books, the " 40th Anniversary Edition " from Doubleday Dell Publishing Group and in the 2001 Book-of-the-Month Club edition.

First appeared in The Martian Chronicles.

This story only appears in the 1974 edition of The Martian Chronicles by The Heritage Press, the 1979 Bantam Books illustrated trade edition, and the 1997 edition of The Martian Chronicles.

However, it was eliminated from the 2006 William Morrow / Harper Collins, and the 2001 DoubleDay Science Fiction reprinting of The Martian Chronicles.

First appeared in The Martian Chronicles.

First appeared in The Martian Chronicles.

He is known for his roles as Tim O ' Hara on the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian, Tom Corbett on the ABC comedy-drama series The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Dr. David Banner on the CBS drama series The Incredible Hulk.

The Martian space marine base acts as security for the Union Aerospace Corporation, a multi-planetary conglomerate, which is performing secret experiments with teleportation by creating gateways between the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos.

Responding to a frantic distress call from the overrun scientists, the Martian marine unit is quickly sent to Phobos to investigate, where the player character is left to guard the hangar with only a pistol while the rest of the group proceeds inside.

In 1960, Singer commented in an article in Astronautics on the hypothesis of Iosif Shklovsky ( later mentioned in a 1966 book by Carl Sagan and Shklovsky ) that the orbit of the Martian moon Phobos suggests that it is hollow, which implies it is of artificial origin.

One of these is the Phoenix lander, which analyzed Martian polar soil for water and chemical and mineralogical constituents related to biological processes.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

Martian speech is described as sounding " like a bullfrog fighting a cat ".

It is analogous to the way a processor caches memory for short term use, but the only implication by this reference was that it was something that a human ( or maybe a Martian ) would do.

Hence, Deuterium-free drinking water is considered to have the potential of lowering the risk of cancer caused by extreme radiation exposure of the Martian crew.

The flagship MSP project is the Polish Martian habitat, based on a design by Janek Kozicki.

Its aim is to convince the Swiss public of the interest and feasibility of the Martian exploration with inhabited flights through the Mars direct concept such as described by Robert Zubrin.

* Mars Direct is the mission mode used in Gregory Benford's novel, The Martian Race, and in Geoffrey A. Landis's novel Mars Crossing, as well as Zubrin's own novel, First Landing.

In Areocentric ( Mars ) orbit until at least 2022 when it is projected to fall out of orbit and into the Martian atmosphere.

The Martian atmosphere is visible over the planet's limb.

Los falls in love with the beautiful Aelita, daughter of the Martian Supreme Ruler, while Los ' companion is trying to organize a communist revolution which is supposed to bring happiness and progress to the ancient and stagnating civilization.

A Martian named Tweel ( one of several species encountered ) is depicted as a sympathetic, intelligent being who thinks as well as or better than a human, but in a convincingly alien manner ( a rare feat at any time, but especially striking for pulp science fiction of that era ).

Ransom is at first fearful of being killed in a barbaric rite ; but discovers three highly sympathetic, intelligent Martian species, completely different from each other but living in harmony.

* Marvin the Martian ( 1948 ) is one of Looney Tunes ' most prominent characters, a soft-spoken villain, whose mission throughout his appearances is to destroy Earth because it " Obstructs his view of Venus ".

They have an advanced culture, but the human explorers are greeted with incomprehension and eventually the Martian civilisation is destroyed by human disease.

* In The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut ( 1959 ), previously uninhabited Mars is populated by brainwashed transplants from Earth, leading to the invasion of Earth by the newly created Martian army.

The story is deliberately written as an elegiac farewell to the old conception of Mars, complete with canals and an ancient, dying Martian race, as " The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth " ( 1965 ) was his farewell to the Venus of earlier science fiction.