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The 1924 movie ("Aelita") followed.
- "Les Navigateurs de l'Infini " (1925) by J.-H. Rosny aîné. Humans travel to Mars in a spaceship named Stellarium, and meet two competing races on the planet.
#### 1930s.
- "Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon (1930) has the Second Men in a far future Earth inva... | 48,500 |
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do the same on Jupiter. Martians and Jovians are never depicted as individuals, but several Earth military officers, including one who switches sides to fight for the Jovians, are.
- "Cat Country" (1932), by Lao She. A satirical novel about early Communist China, set in a fictional country of catlike p... | 48,501 |
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by Stanley G. Weinbaum. A Martian named Tweel (one of several species encountered) is depicted as a sympathetic, intelligent being who thinks as well as or better than a human, but in a convincingly alien manner (a rare feat at any time, but especially striking for pulp science fiction of that era). The... | 48,502 |
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who arrives by accident on Mars (called Malacandra by the natives). Ransom is at first fearful of being killed in a barbaric rite; but discovers three highly sympathetic, intelligent Martian species, completely different from each other but living in harmony. As in the other books, Lewis' Mars is a dyin... | 48,503 |
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Brown depicts an alternate history where humans discovered anti-gravity in 1903 and launched a war to conquer Mars, which is inhabited by creatures with a culture equal to that of Earth, but militarily weaker. The Martians are decimated and finally accept human colonization. H.G. Wells writes a book den... | 48,504 |
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many other short stories set on Mars.
- "Marooned on Mars" (1952) by Lester del Rey. A young adult novel in which a teenager stows away on the first ship to Mars, causing it to crash during landing. He discovers the underground remains of a native Martian civilization.
- "Star of Ill-Omen" (1952) by D... | 48,505 |
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relish for disclosing secrets of any kind, at any level. Therefore, people stop gambling, voting, and buying newspapers. They can materialize anywhere, including in darkened bedrooms, and they see in the dark; offering malicious comments on mating couples in order to depopulate the planet.
- "No Man Fr... | 48,506 |
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an A.I. to study human emotions. During the stay, a young couple ends up on Mars by accident, where they encounter the local fauna and ruins of buildings built by the long gone Martians.
- "A World's Revival" (Hebrew: תבל בתחיתה Tevel Be-Thiatah) (1955) by Tzvi Livneh. Takes place some 500 years in the... | 48,507 |
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dispersed and persecuted minority explicitly described as "The Jews of Mars". Livneh may have been influenced by "Aelita"; his story also involves interplanetary love.
- "The Outward Urge" (1959) by John Wyndham. Describes a comparatively realistic Mars landing, without any Martians.
### Living on Mar... | 48,508 |
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of horror set on Mars.
- The "Northwest Smith" stories (1933–1936) by C. L. Moore. Many of these stories take place on a Mars populated by intelligent, humanoid Martians - and other, more Lovecraftian things.
- "Legion of Space Series" (1934–1982) by Jack Williamson. In this future history, humans con... | 48,509 |
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by Leigh Brackett. These planetary romances describe a desert Mars populated by barbarian warriors and citizens of decadent city-states, coming into explosive contact with Terran civilization. Brackett's "The Sword of Rhiannon" (1953) shows an oceanic Mars of the distant past, and comes close to pure fa... | 48,510 |
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"the slender, fairy-like towers" of the native Martians and replaced them with ugly factories which pollute the Martian canals.
- "Red Planet" (1949). Young adult novel. Includes some very intelligent Martians similar to those mentioned in "Stranger in a Strange Land", who help human colonists free the... | 48,511 |
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is colonized by European Fascists and Neo-Nazis, and its main holiday is "Hitler Day", celebration of which often entails bloody riots. The Fascist Mars is one of the main powers contending for control of the mineral wealth of the Asteroid Belt.
#### 1950s and early 1960s.
- "Genesis" (1951) by H. Bea... | 48,512 |
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Earths by the 20th Century (see ,).
- "Omnilingual" (1957) by H. Beam Piper. Short story in which archaeologists from Earth (returning to the Mars of their distant ancestors; see "Genesis" above, although the stories are not explicitly related save through the author's Paratime stories), excavating the... | 48,513 |
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Asimov writing as Paul French. A juvenile novel set in the distant future whose title character discovers an unsuspected Martian civilization deep beneath the Red Planet's surface.
- "The Martian Way" (1952) by Isaac Asimov. Earth people are scornful of the Martian colonists, who survive by salvaging "... | 48,514 |
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to the human inhabitants, influencing week minded people to dig up their old and sometimes dangerous artifacts.
- In Jerome Bixby's 1954 story, "The Holes Around Mars" puzzle the first astronauts on the planet.
- "One in Three Hundred" (1954) by J. T. McIntosh relates the discovery there will be a gre... | 48,515 |
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can be built in time, the human race might be able to make it to Mars and eke out a living there.
- In November 1955, Martian Manhunter of DC Comics first appears in "Detective Comics" #225.
- "The Badge of Infamy" (1957) by Lester Del Rey. This novelette describes a colonized Mars run by earth lobbie... | 48,516 |
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by the newly created Martian army.
- In the "Perry Rhodan" series (1961- ), Mars is the site of an ancient gateway to the "negative side" of the universe. Through this gateway, the planet becomes infested with death crystals whose life-destroying radiation threatens to spread to the Earth.
- "A Rose f... | 48,517 |
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fiction.
- In Philip K. Dick's fiction, Mars is an almost empty, dry land, with isolated communities and individuals, most of whom do not want to be there. ("Martian Time Slip" (1964), "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (1965)). The characters in these stories could be in small communities in the ... | 48,518 |
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the last billion years. It's so old. You feel it in the stones, the terrible old age". Furthermore, "pre-colonial fiction" is smuggled to Mars by amateur rockets - "To read about cities and huge industrial enterprises, and really successful colonization. You can imagine what it might have been like. Wha... | 48,519 |
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and unpredictable robot.
## Radio, film and television.
- "A Trip to Mars " is a silent film created by Thomas Edison in 1910. Its plot follows a scientist who discovers reverse gravity in his lab. He then, accidentally, applies the dust to himself and flies up to Mars where he makes absurd discoverie... | 48,520 |
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radio science fiction program "Journey Into Space" (1954–1955) deals with a trip to Mars and what the astronauts find there.
- "The Angry Red Planet" (1959) – A low-budget horror/science fiction film.
- The serial " Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars " shows Mars being inhabited by intelligent life. Queen Az... | 48,521 |
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fun of on the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- "Thunderbirds Are GO" (1966) - followed the first manned mission to Mars aboard the Zero-X. This is a notable depiction, which displays a pre-exploration idea of how Mars would look - rocky and desert-like. The crew encounter "rock snakes", which ... | 48,522 |
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Stand Up", "People Are Alike All Over" and "Mr. Dingle the Strong".
# Mars in fiction after Mariner.
## Novels and short stories.
Mariner 4 in July 1965 found that Mars—contrary to expectations—is heavily cratered, with a very thin atmosphere. No canals were found; while scientists did not believe th... | 48,523 |
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life. By the 1970s, the ideas of canals and ancient civilizations had to be abandoned.
Authors soon began writing stories based on the new Mars (frequently treating it as a desert planet). Most of these works feature humans struggling to tame the planet, and some of them refer to terraforming (using te... | 48,524 |
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series "Babylon 5". Many video games also use this concept, such as the "Red Faction" and "Zone of the Enders" series, and "". A historical rebellion of Mars against Earth is also mentioned in the "Star Trek" series of novels, which are not considered canon.
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large-scale expeditions to Mars according to the thinking of the 1990s. These were followed by Gregory Benford's "The Martian Race" (1999), Geoffrey A. Landis's "Mars Crossing" (2000), and Robert Zubrin's "First Landing" (2002), which took as their starting points the smaller and more focused expedition... | 48,526 |
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and a confrontation with the native Martians—a shadowy race spending most of their time swimming under the surface of the Martian dust, and to whom water is a deadly poison. They are neither able nor interested in going into space, and humans are not really interested in Mars, so there seems no reason f... | 48,527 |
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xenophobic towards anybody else. This act of interplanetary genocide in effect ties Niven's Mars with the older Wells/Stapledon tradition. Some of these Martians are thought to have survived on the Ringworld, however. See Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld Throne, and Ringworld's Children. Various Protector... | 48,528 |
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original intended area of exploration. The story is told from the viewpoint of the expedition's psychologist, and tries to be (based on the knowledge then known about Mars when written) accurate and realistic as to the problems encountered due to the Martian environment, the technology they have, and th... | 48,529 |
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to a Mars that has been thoroughly corrupted by domed city life - he who controls the air machinery, makes the rules. The local police and city government are utterly corrupt, Chicago style. At first he tries to fit in, then his contact with other downtrodden outsiders renews his old idealism.
- "Birth... | 48,530 |
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of living on Mars.
- "The Far Call" (1978) by Gordon R. Dickson describes a first international mission to Mars featuring a redundant architecture where two spacecraft are sent at once to Mars. It also provides illuminating insight to the culture at NASA.
### 1980s.
- "Ananke" (1982) by Stanisław Lem... | 48,531 |
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Dr. Manhattan and human Laurie Juspeczyk.
- "The Forge of God" (1987) by Greg Bear. The only surviving humans, numbering in the thousands, and the only surviving Earth life, are resettled on Mars, after the annihilation of Earth.
- "Desolation Road" (1988) by Ian McDonald is a magic-realist science fi... | 48,532 |
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beast, the ghouloon, out of baboons.
- "Lobster Man from Mars" (1989) is a parody of 1950s science fiction films, and tells of a race of Martians who are dying due to a rapidly thinning atmosphere, and send an anthropomorphic lobster to investigate the possible colonisation of Earth.
- "Venus Prime" (... | 48,533 |
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the planet. In Robinson's companion book "The Martians", the escarpment is the scene of an epic multi-pitched rock climb. His "Icehenge" (1984) also features a Mars in process of terraforming. Olympus Mons features as the site of an annual festival. Mars is also one of the terraformed worlds visited dur... | 48,534 |
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failing attempt at terraforming Mars by the Chinese.
- "Bright Messengers" (1995) by Gentry Lee. A novel set in the Arthur C. Clarke's Rama universe. A faithful priestess and an engineer who share the same vision of sparkling particules on Earth meet on Mars as civilization faces total collapse. This a... | 48,535 |
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(1997) by William K. Hartmann, a novel about a partially terraformed Mars by a noted astronomer.
- "Olympus Mons" (1998) by Bud Sparhawk. the mountain is the setting for a 21st-century downhill race.
- "Beige Planet Mars" (1998) by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham, a novel in Virgin Publishing's "New Adv... | 48,536 |
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a Nebula Award-winning novella about a child growing up on Mars.
- "The Martian Race" (1999) by Gregory Benford
- Brian Aldiss and Roger Penrose wrote "White Mars" (1999) as a response to the terraforming science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson and Paul J. McAuley above. However, their work rejects te... | 48,537 |
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best German SF short story of the year 2001.
### 2000s.
- "Mars Crossing" (2000) by Geoffrey A. Landis, about a stranded expedition; which won the Locus Award for best first novel.
- "The Great Wall of Mars" (2000) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is ... | 48,538 |
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Martian King" (2003). Barnes also sets one of the two "Meme Wars" novels on Mars: "The Sky So Big and Black" (2002).
- "Falling Onto Mars" (2002), by Geoffrey A. Landis, a Hugo Award-winning short story that envisions Mars as a prison planet,
- "Ilium/Olympus" series (2003- ) by Dan Simmons. Olympus M... | 48,539 |
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has made the planet uninhabitable by men, so that only women populate Mars, living alongside an ancient parasitic organism (perhaps also alien to Mars) referred to as "the Fenrir" and "the Wolf."
- "Zero Summer" (2007). Includes a closing scene set on a station on Mars' satellite Phobos.
- "Excerpt fr... | 48,540 |
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in the Oubliette, a city moving across the face of the planet.
- "The Martian" is a 2011 novel by Andy Weir about an astronaut stranded on Mars trying to survive.
- "The Expanse (novel series)" (2011-2019) by James S. A. Corey depicts solar system Mars as an independent nation in competition with Eart... | 48,541 |
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Monticelli, originally published in Italian under the title "Deserto rosso" (2012-2013), is a four-book series whose main characters are the first colonizers of the Red Planet. It was translated by the author into English.
- A terraformed Mars is the primary setting in Pierce Brown's "Red Rising" serie... | 48,542 |
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volume takes place largely on Mars.
- "A journey to mars" (2015) novel first appeared in Arabic (2014) "رحلة إلى المريخ" then it was translated and published in English, it was written by "Nabil Kochaji".
- "Titrāktūs Chahār La‘natī "(2015) (in Persian :تتراكتوس چهار لعنتي ), by Reza Khoshnazar is a p... | 48,543 |
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"Fable Hill" (2017) by Christopher Uremovich, a hard science fiction novel that takes place in 2045. Follows a double amputee and five other astronauts as they survive on Mars and uncover ancient secrets.
- "De Walden a Gale en 39 días" (2018 Argentina) by G.G. Melies Inspired by Thoreau's Walden, it i... | 48,544 |
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of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs' Barsoom, Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" or ... | 48,545 |
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only for you to amuse yourself by running your sword through them". Kickaha visits from time to time the empty Barsoom, complete with beautiful palaces in which nobody ever lived, but goes away frustrated.
- Some Sword and planet series, such as Michael Moorcock's "Kane of Old Mars" trilogy (1965) and ... | 48,546 |
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improbable combination of Burroughs' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.
- "A World Of Difference" (1990) by Harry Turtledove. In this alternate history, the fourth planet of our solar system - named Minerva instead of Mars - is ... | 48,547 |
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mission is sent in a hurry to explore the planet, and things develop fast from there.
- S. M. Stirling's Lords of Creation series includes "In the Courts of the Crimson Kings", in which Mars (as well as Venus) have been terraformed by unknown aliens over the course of hundreds of millions of years and ... | 48,548 |
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a time machine that is used to visit ancient Mars. The only problem is that time travel is impossible, and the machine actually travels back to a "fictitious"/alternate-universe Mars. The protagonist meets a wide variety of different Martians, including most of those from the pre-Mariner novels listed a... | 48,549 |
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edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Nostalgia for the older Mars also frequently appears in comics and role-playing games, particularly of the steampunk genre:
- The role-playing game "" (1988) features an alternate history in which a heroic Mars, complete with natives, is being colonized... | 48,550 |
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from "Out of the Silent Planet", with references to "Kane of Old Mars". In the world of The League, the Martians from "The War of the Worlds" are not originally from Mars, but were invading aliens who moved on to try to conquer Earth.
- In the graphic novels "Scarlet Traces" (2002) and "Scarlet Traces:... | 48,551 |
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Martian colonisation of Earth. A Martian infiltrates a group of humans. He is humanoid with a third arm. However the colonisation is prevented by the Venusians-who are humanoid with a third eye-having already set up a colony.
- "Total Recall" (1990) – Loosely based upon a Philip K. Dick short story, "W... | 48,552 |
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Sybillus and Armitage working for the Martian Police Department.
- "Mars Attacks!" (1996) - Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
- "Kido Senkan Nadeshiko" (1996-97) - Martian colonists come under attack from the descendants of exiled Lunar separatists.
- "R... | 48,553 |
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to the Robert A. Heinlein novel of the same title.
- "" (2001) - The crew of the spaceship Bebop, an intrepid band of bounty hunters, land on Mars during Halloween 2071 to chase an enormous cash reward.
- "Ghosts of Mars" (2001) – Director John Carpenter uses the planet as a science fiction setting fo... | 48,554 |
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documentary style series about a scientific voyage by the crew of the interplanetary ship "Pegasus". Mars was one of the first planets visited, and the crew stayed on the surface for some time, finding water and experiencing a huge dust storm.
- "Doom" (2005) – Barely based on the third installment of ... | 48,555 |
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a promise he made her when they were teens.
- "Princess of Mars" (2009) - A direct-to-video movie produced by the independent studio The Asylum, based on "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, starring Antonio Sabato Jr. as John Carter and Traci Lords as Dejah Thoris.
- "Mars Needs Moms" (2011)... | 48,556 |
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a Martian invasion, inspired by the H. G. Wells classic and The Great War
- "Aldnoah.Zero" (2014-15) - Martian colonists declare independence as a feudal monarchy, the Vers Empire. It engages in two wars with Earth for resources.
- "The Martian" (2015) – based on the book by Andy Weir.
- "The Expanse... | 48,557 |
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Live on Mars" by Stephen Petranek.
### Secondary references to Mars in film and television.
In the following works of fiction, the Martian setting is of secondary importance to the work as a whole.
- "Doctor Who" television series. Mars is the now uninhabitable homeworld of the Ice Warriors, a recurr... | 48,558 |
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extinct. (This episode also introduces a viral, water-borne Martian named the Flood.) The episode is set in 2059, and implies that the first human colony on Mars will arrive in 2057, two years before the episode is set (as told in dialogue).
- "Blue Comet SPT Layzner" (1985–1986) anime series. Several ... | 48,559 |
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to Earth, but, encountering difficulty upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere and splashing into the ocean, leaving "seaQuest" to find the capsule before an unfriendly foreign confederation can.
- "Cowboy Bebop" (1998) animated television series. Several episodes take place on Mars.
- "Futurama" (1999–20... | 48,560 |
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one episode, Zim finds that Mars is a giant spaceship and attempts to roll it over Earth in order to wipe out all human life.
- ""The Fairly OddParents"" animated television series. In "Wishology! Part 3: The Final Ending," Jorgen sticks a wand to Mars.
- "Adventure Time" animated television series. I... | 48,561 |
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Earth.
- In "Transformers" (2007), a government agent reveals to the United States Secretary of Defense that an early contact with the eponymous robot species came in the form of a 13-second video transmission from the Beagle 2 probe sent to Mars in 2003; the "footage" was also the primary basis of the... | 48,562 |
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guest character, Lt. Mira Romaine, was born on Martian Colony 3.
- Some starships are assembled at the Utopia Planitia region on Mars, particularly the Galaxy class starships featured in "". The Utopia Planitia shipyard appears onscreen in the "" episode "".
- In the episode "" of "", a Borg cube is s... | 48,563 |
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array which redirects comets to crashland on the planet's surface; by 2155 the atmosphere had been sufficiently altered so that, in the lowlands, Humans could breathe the air unassisted, though temperatures were still cold enough to require thermal gear. The opening credits of this series feature real i... | 48,564 |
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series. Yurisha of Iscandar, sent to bring aid to Earth in its war against the invasion by Gamilas, crashes on Mars. One of the main characters, Akira Yamamoto, has red eyes as a result of being born on the planet. In the planet is home to a shipyard, and function as the last line of defense for the Ear... | 48,565 |
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for "Mars Special Ops."
- "": Human colonization of Mars occurred after the Calamity Wars, though it still remained under the authority of the Earth, and its inhabitants seek freedom for a better future.
- "Life" is a science fiction movie which focuses on a living cell recovered on Mars and taken on ... | 48,566 |
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crater is covered by a massive dome to retain an atmosphere as the main settlement on the planet.
- Several stories of the DC Comics character Martian Manhunter take place on Mars, and the Manhunter is a Green Martian. Most of the Green Martians were wiped out by a plague, although the more ruthless Wh... | 48,567 |
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Spirits of the dead from various planets were taken to Mars and given new bodies to work. The Duke of Deception is a major villain of that world, operating a Lie Factory and making several attempts to invade Earth.
- In January–February 1950, Superman journeys to Mars to help actor-director Orson Welle... | 48,568 |
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the Men From Mars", a man from the year 1990 discovers a Martian space-craft while patrolling the coast on the lookout for communist spies.
- In the manga and anime "Sailor Moon", released in 1992, in the silver millennium, Mars was inhabited by the warlike descendants of the Greek god Ares. The charac... | 48,569 |
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inhabited by a warlike treacherous race that resemble 1940s military dictators. They join the Invaders from Infinity (see List of Captain Marvel (DC Comics) enemies) in their attempt to destroy the Solar System after being defeated, but are beaten and sent back to Mars while the Invaders are imprisoned ... | 48,570 |
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and related manga and anime series; in "" Mars is depicted as a war-torn planet, covered under planetary sized canopy.
## Computer and video games.
- In the id Software game "Commander Keen", Keen explores Mars in the first episode and keeps a Martian pet for the remainder of the series.
- In "", Mar... | 48,571 |
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use Mars as a base of operations in which to launch UFO attacks on Earth.
- "", a game similar to the X-COM series, is set entirely on Mars and its moons. It involves a human colony struggling for survival against various hostile aliens and the harsh Martian environment. Strategic gameplay takes place ... | 48,572 |
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terraformed planet with a breathable atmosphere, against the corporate-funded Earth Defence Force, in the Tharsis region of Mars. Some of the locations are named after the characters of the first uprising.
- The computer game "Elite 2" starts on Mars in one scenario.
- The "Zone of the Enders" video g... | 48,573 |
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first to the year 1887, then on to Mars to rescue many of Earth's scientists, celebrities, and politicians stranded there by accident. The Avatar will uncover the secrets of a lost Martian civilization.
- In the video game "Airforce Delta Strike", the EDAF establishes a base on Mars to use as a rally p... | 48,574 |
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located on Mars, before the facility is destroyed at one particular game level by an invading Earth force. The next game level after that also takes place on Mars in an underground colony.
- The survival horror "" is set on a research base on the surface of Mars, and a volcanic vent of Olympus Mons is ... | 48,575 |
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HQ on Mars where the player's final mission takes place.
- In "Darius II", players travel to Mars to eliminate one of many underground enemy bases.
- In the shoot 'em up "Mars Matrix", Martian colonists revolt turning their colony upside down and the players are ordered to stop them.
- In the Cave sh... | 48,576 |
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left over from an alien race known as the Protheans. This allows humanity to expand out of the solar system and become part of a larger galactic community. The capitol of Mars is called "Lowell City" - probably named after Percival Lowell, who fueled belief in the possibility of alien structures on Mars... | 48,577 |
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in an attempt to colonize once more after Mars was turned into a desert wasteland from the Furons; instead of Martians they are referred to as Blisk.
- In the video game "", Mars is featured as the fourth stage of this game.
- Outerra Virtual Mars is an ongoing project to create a virtual replica of p... | 48,578 |
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provided by the Traveler, humanity creates the city of Freehold. During the game's back story, a massive near extinction event occurs as the solar system is invaded by numerous alien species and Mars is abandoned, later being conquered by an alien faction called the Cabal, who alter the orbits of both P... | 48,579 |
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around the location are the Cabal Red Legion and Hive.
- "Surviving Mars" puts the player in charge of building and managing a Martian colony.
- One of the special missions in the free-to-play online first person shooter game "Warface" takes place in Mars.
## Role-playing games.
- In Palladium Games... | 48,580 |
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to the Bermuda Triangle) in which full-fledged jungles grow within the borders of three nearby Rifts.
- In the GURPS role-playing game "Transhuman Space", Mars is in the process of being terraformed, while several million people live in colonies. China, the first nation to land on Mars and the leader o... | 48,581 |
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is decadent and the various city-states and desert tribes squabble as the canal system slowly falls apart and Earthmen arrive to carve out colonial holdings.
## Wargames.
- In the tabletop wargame "Warhammer 40,000" (set 38,000 years in the future), Mars is a vast, heavily colonized 'Forge World,' hom... | 48,582 |
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of Mankind at some point between 1300 AD and 1600 AD (how the Emperor accomplished this has never been described in detail). It is also mentioned that the planet was once terraformed, but the terraforming was undone due to rampant industrialism.
- In the tabletop wargame and fictional universe of Battl... | 48,583 |
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Sphere the mercenary command Wolf's Dragoons launched a failed assault on Mars which resulted in the nuclear scouring of their base planet of Outreach.
## Music.
- In the second verse of the hit song "Rocket Man" (1972), Elton John sings "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids/In fact it's co... | 48,584 |
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on their 2002 release "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots". The song won the 2002 Grammy for Best Instrumental Rock Performance.
- Progressive rock band Ayreon's 2000 album "" tells the story of the last surviving human living on a Mars colony, many years after a war wiped out all life on Earth, leaving t... | 48,585 |
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album "Hunky Dory" (1971) which has been described as having 'one of the strangest lyrics ever'. The chorus contains the lyrics "Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know/He's in the best selling show/Is there life on Mars" and was summed up by Bowie as being 'a sensitive young girl's reaction to the media'. It... | 48,586 |
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of classical science fiction; he was frequently found away from his home planet, often invading Earth, but sometimes simply a lonely character representing alienness from his surroundings. Martians, other than human beings transplanted to Mars, became rare in fiction after Mariner, except in exercises o... | 48,587 |
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Musical notation
Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols.
Types and methods of notation have varied between cultures and th... | 48,588 |
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musicians, the Nashville Number System is the main method.
The symbols used include ancient symbols and modern symbols made upon any media such as symbols cut into stone, made in clay tablets, made using a pen on papyrus or parchment or manuscript paper; printed using a printing press (ca. 1400s), a c... | 48,589 |
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for ecclesiastical uniformity. The church began notating plainchant melodies so that the same chants could be used throughout the church. Music notation developed further in the Renaissance and Baroque music eras. In the classical period (1750–1820) and the Romantic music era (1820–1900), notation cont... | 48,590 |
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classical music, popular music, and traditional music.
# History.
## Ancient Near East.
The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, in Babylonia (today's Iraq), in about 1400 BC. The tablet represents fragmentary instructions for performing mu... | 48,591 |
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these tablets represent the earliest notated melodies found anywhere in the world.
## Ancient Greece.
Ancient Greek musical notation was in use from at least the 6th century BC until approximately the 4th century AD; several complete compositions and fragments of compositions using this notation surv... | 48,592 |
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appears to have fallen out of use around the time of the Decline of the Western Roman Empire.
## Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine music has mainly survived as music for court ceremonies, including vocal religious music. It is not known if it is based on the monodic modal singing and instrumental music of ... | 48,593 |
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back to the 6th century). Originally this key or the incipit of a common melody was enough to indicate a certain melodic model given within the echos. Despite ekphonetic notation further early melodic notation developed not earlier than between the 9th and the 10th century. Like the Greek alphabet nota... | 48,594 |
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rather than absolute, i.e. they indicate pitch steps (rising, falling or at the same step), and the musicians know to deduce correctly, from the score and the note they are singing presently, which correct interval is meant. These step symbols themselves, or better "phonic neumes", resemble brush strok... | 48,595 |
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signatures usually meant a temporary change into another echos.
The so-called "great signs" were once related to cheironomic signs; according to modern interpretations they are understood as embellishments and microtonal attractions (pitch changes smaller than a semitone), both essential in Byzantine ... | 48,596 |
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of "vú and zō" they do roughly correspond to Western solmization syllables as "re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do". Byzantine music uses the eight natural, non-tempered scales whose elements were identified by "Ēkhoi", "sounds", exclusively, and therefore the absolute pitch of each note may slightly vary each... | 48,597 |
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are only known from an oral tradition related to traditional masters and their experience.
## 13th-century Near East.
In 1252, Safi al-Din al-Urmawi developed a form of musical notation, where rhythms were represented by geometric representation. Many subsequent scholars of rhythm have sought to deve... | 48,598 |
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By the middle of the 9th century, however, a form of neumatic notation began to develop in monasteries in Europe as a mnemonic device for Gregorian chant, using symbols known as neumes; the earliest surviving musical notation of this type is in the "Musica disciplina" of Aurelian of Réôme, from about 8... | 48,599 |
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