They announced that this was a dramatization, that it was all fiction, that there were no Martians and Quito was safe. But instead of calming troubled waters, the announcement fueled tremendous ...

Here, Mars season producer Mark Burman picks twelve curious creatures from over a century of Martian fiction. Before HG Wells, most Martians looked essentially like us. After Wells, anything was ...

The future scientist, an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s science fiction, would pass evenings ... He fantasized about Martians, their bodies a kaleidoscope of color—Burroughs’s Mars ...

Science fiction authors lost interest in Mars for a while though. Especially when NASA's early Mars missions painted a picture of a planet devoid of all life. There were no Martian queens or ...

as the "fiction" part of science-fiction also needs to do some heavy lifting to elevate the most grounded premises. "The Martian" succeeds in doing so, as it re-frames a perseverance story into ...