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Martian Time-Slip is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.The novel uses the common science fiction concept of a human colony on Mars.However, it also includes the themes of mental illness, the physics of time and the dangers of centralized authority.
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must is a nonfiction science book by Robert Zubrin, first published in 1996, and revised and updated in 2011. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book details Zubrin's Mars Direct plan to make the first human landing on Mars .
Mars colonies seeking independence from or outright revolting against Earth is a recurring motif; [2] [61] in del Rey's Police Your Planet a revolution is precipitated by Earth using unrest against the colony's corrupt mayor as a pretext for bringing Mars under firmer Terran control, [22] [54] [65] and in Tubb's Alien Dust the colonists ...
Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System.. Fictional planets of the Solar System have been depicted since the 1700s—often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers, though commonly ...
According to the novel, Persephone is the tenth planet (a Planet X) of the Solar System. While actually proposed in the 1970s to account for perturbations for the orbit of Neptune , Niven gives it additional qualities such as retrograde motion , an orbit tilted 61 degrees to the ecliptic , and a mass slightly less than that of Saturn .
The book includes eight pages of colored paintings by American science fiction and space illustrator, Chesley Bonestell, who also painted the cover. [1] In the Author's Preface to Project Mars: A Technical Tale, written by von Braun in 1950 in Fort Bliss, he states that the purpose of the book is to "stimulate interest in space travel". [7]
On Mars, Paxton is taken in by elderly mad scientist Ras Thavas, the "Master Mind" of the title, who educates him in the ways of Barsoom and bestows on him the Martian name Vad Varo. Ras has perfected techniques of transplanting brains, which he uses to provide rich elderly Martians with youthful new bodies for a profit.
The first book, A Princess of Mars, introduced the tall, gangly, four-armed, orc-like Green Martians and the more common humanoid Red Martians. John Carter spent his first ten years on Mars without knowing of the existence of the other races, aside from ancient paintings and frescoes that depicted White Martians.