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The Mars trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning 187 years, from 2026 to 2212.
"Red Mars" – Interzone, #63 September 1992. "Sacred Space" – I'm With the Bears , 2011, ed. Mark Martin, ISBN 978-1-84467-744-3 . This excerpt is from chapter 6 of the novel Sixty Days and Counting .
The question of how humans would get to Mars was addressed in several ways: when not travelling there via spaceship as in the 1911 novel To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks, [24] they might use a flying carpet as in the 1905 novel Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation by Edwin Lester Arnold, [14] [18] [20] a balloon as in A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul ...
A companion book to the series, Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet (October 2016), details the science behind the show. [1] A prequel episode, called Before Mars, was produced and released conjointly with the series. It tells the fictional story of a moment in the life of one of the astronauts and the decisions she made to get involved in science.
A Princess of Mars, the first novel in the Barsoom series, with its sequels The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars, form a trilogy centered upon protagonist John Carter and damsel in distress Dejah Thoris. John Carter's and Dejah Thoris's son Carthoris is also introduced as a minor character in The Gods of Mars, as is Thuvia. [7]: 1209–1210
[26] [27] [28] [b] Under the Moons of Mars inaugurated the Barsoom series, introduced John Carter, and earned Burroughs US$400 ($11,922 today). It was first published as a book by A. C. McClurg of Chicago in 1917, entitled A Princess of Mars , after three Barsoom sequels had appeared as serials and McClurg had published the first four serial ...
The Mammoth Trilogy; The Man from Mars; Man Plus; The Man Who Loved Mars; Maria Looney on the Red Planet; Marooned on Mars; Mars Crossing; Mars Life; Mars Plus; Mars trilogy; The Martian (Weir novel) The Martian Chronicles; The Martian Sphinx; Martian Time-Slip; Martians, Go Home; Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars; Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars ...
According to the Space Trilogy's cosmology, the language of all the inhabitants of the Field of Arbol is Old Solar, or Hlab-Eribol-ef-Cordi. Only Earth lost the language; this loss was due to the Bent One's influence. Old Solar can be likened to the Elvish languages invented by Lewis's friend, Tolkien. The grammar is little known, except for ...