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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and a host of young people read the science fiction and are inspired to become scientists to learn about Mars.” At an early age, I read Ray Bradbury’s “Martian Chronicles” and also Edgar ...