Questions tagged [mars]
The 4th planet from Sol - sometimes called The Red Planet. Considered to be the prime target for humanity's first off-world colony, and features in a large number of science-fiction stories because of this (The Mars Trilogy, Total Recall). Sometimes, supposed Martian beings will invade Earth (War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks!)
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Looking for SciFi Book name from 1990's or 80's about Mars [duplicate]
I read this book, it was trilogy I think. It was about Mars being settled and had oceans. There is an alien race there as well and the main characters had to eventually fight them. The antagonist ...
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Short story. Humanity reaches Mars, the whole planet is honeycombed. Aliens rapidly mined everything of any value, then abandoned the planet [duplicate]
I read this after 2000. It seemed a few decades old when I read it. Earth is in a pretty bad way and many humans hope to move to Mars. The first team of astronauts to reach Mars are extraordinarily ...
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Explorers on Mars in danger. They enter a martian settlement to ask for help. Later discover they were teleported miles to safety and never noticed [duplicate]
This might be tricky. I think it was part of a novel I read in the eighties. The only detail that sticks in my head is them entering a Martian settlement and asking for help to get home. They then ...
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Small girl visits sweet innocent-seeming Martian old lady. She is far less harmless than she seems
I read this about ten years ago but it seemed much older.
The Martian seems like an innocent sweet old lady. A human girl visits her house and watches her baking something like apple pie.
The girl ...
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Short Story. Humans land on Mars. Communicate with martians by drawing pictures. Miscommunication gets humans killed
They communicate with the martians by drawing pictures. At first it seems to be going well. The human draws a right angled triangle labelled two sides III and IIII. The martian labelled the hypotenuse ...
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Book about kid going to Mars and communicating with his friend
A few years ago, I read a book that was about this kid going to Mars with his father and communicating with his friend. It also describes what it would feel like to leave the atmosphere in a rocket, ...
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Sci fi book identification from Mars to Jupiter?
So I was reading a sci-fi book that started on Mars (it was in my old job's break room; I moved jobs and can't remember the name). I only recall bits and pieces and didn't get far. Any help in ...
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1970s short story where USA wants to terraform Mars, Communist China wants to settle Mars via pantropy, USSR is defunct
The story revolves around a U.S. diplomat. At this future date, the world has two superpowers, the USA and Communist China. There is a dispute about how best to colonize Mars. The United States ...
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TV miniseries about a race to Mars from summer 2014
I saw two episodes of this series on an airplane flight probably in 2014, I believe on the SciFi (SyFy?) channel. The basic story was a race to Mars between NASA (or its successor) and China. The NASA ...
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1980s children's storybook about a boy's journey from Earth to Mars
I’m looking for a children's storybook from the '80s about a boy who moves from Earth to Mars. The book came with a cassette with the boy narrating. I recall the intro man's voice saying, "this ...
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Movie producer decides to make a movie about a trip to Mars using a Mars expedition ship that was built and never used
I'm trying to remember the author and title of an SF novel about a trip to Mars.
In this world, a Mars expedition had been planned and the expedition ship built, but the project was cancelled for lack ...
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In the universe of John Carter and "A Princess of Mars" light plays a role. Why?
In the John Carter universe, the energy source is all about light waves. Light ships float on light waves, and different light waves unlocks energies unknown to men.
My question is: Was Mr. Burroughs ...
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1960s? Teen builds a spaceship and gets stuck on Mars; "Girl Next Door" uses his prototype to rescue him and also gets stuck on Mars
Library hardback in English. Probably from the 60s.
A teenager builds an antigravity drive in his garage. When he turns it on, it lifts the garage off the foundation a few inches before he turns it ...
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SF short story from 1960-1980 about the murder of a Martian who played a form of golf using a jewelled boomerang
I think this short story was in one of the “Gold” collection series.
It was about the murder of a Martian who played a form of golf using a jewelled boomerang. The human eventually convicted ends up ...
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Short story in which humans abandon Earth for Mars, only to find out that humans had previously abandoned Mars for Earth
I'm trying to remember the name of a short story that I read some years ago (I think it was by Philip K Dick) where humans had made the Earth uninhabitable and so they set up an observatory to plan a ...
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