It was a gut punch. The New York Times declared Mars a dead planet. “The fanciful Martian megafauna,” John Updike wrote many years later for this magazine, “were swept into oblivion.” ...

California native Andy Weir was working as a software engineer in the tech industry before his writing career took off. Weir went from an ordinary guy to one of the most successfu ...

Likewise, DC Comics superhero J'onn J'onzz/The Martian Manhunter is a premier member of the Justice League. He's sometimes depicted as the last survivor of Mars like Superman, sometimes not.