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Red Planet Mars is a 1952 American science fiction film released by United Artists starring Peter Graves and Andrea King. It is based on a 1932 play Red Planet written by John L. Balderston and John Hoare and was directed by art director Harry Horner in his directorial debut.
In 1952 the technical appendix to "Marsprojekt", which contained projected specifications for the novel's expedition to Mars, was published by West German publisher Umschau Verlag as Das Marsprojekt; the University of Illinois Press brought out the English translation of it the following year, giving it the same title as the full novel, The ...
Lost Planet Airmen: Fred C. Brannon: Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, I. Stanford Jolley: United States: Action Crime [nb 3] The Man from Planet X: Edgar G. Ulmer: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond: United States: Horror Romance Thriller The Man in the White Suit: Alexander Mackendrick: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael ...
The background of Mars presented in the novel, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant Martian canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction novels of the early 20th century, and was actually put forward as a plausible theory by some astronomers around the turn of the ...
The Mars Project (German: Das Marsprojekt) is a 1952 non-fiction scientific book by the German (later German-American) rocket physicist, astronautics engineer and space architect Wernher von Braun. It was translated from the original German by Henry J. White and first published in English by the University of Illinois Press in 1953.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -NASA's rover Perseverance has gathered data confirming the existence of ancient lake sediments deposited by water that once filled a giant basin on Mars called Jerezo Crater ...
The three novels are Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993), and Blue Mars (1996). The Martians (1999) is a collection of short stories set in the same fictional universe. Red Mars won the BSFA Award in 1992 and Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1993. Green Mars won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1994.
A 14th novel, Podkayne of Mars, is sometimes listed as a "Heinlein juvenile", although Heinlein himself did not consider it to be one. The intended market was teenaged boys, but the books have been enjoyed by a wide range of readers. Heinlein wanted to present challenging material to children, such as the firearms for teenagers in Red Planet.