Chris and Eric try to wrap their minds around a planet Mars with a host of characters that may appear again in The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe. This mind-bending experience takes our hero on a journey of kidnapping, ransom, escape, and...
Mark Watney is marooned on Mars, not the first literary lost on the red planet, and probably not the last. Lifedeathscifi talks about how he McGivers his way out of some life-or-death spots and earns his spot to the spaceman’s ball. The world...
Space travel, Mars settlement, and planet-building on a grand scale, Kim Stanley Robinson takes us on an epic journey that extends our lifetime and shows us what humans can make and take apart. Would you take the treatment? Image: Cover photograph...
Finally, space is more like 21st-century space in this wacky ride to Mars. Eric and Chris talk about Demogorgons, wispy beards, the Stalin lounge, HT serum made from bears, The Mary Poppins, and much more about this near-future vision of space...
Okay. This is part of the chronological journey of Martian stories. We began in 1912 and now seven stories later, We’re in 1988. So far, most of, if not, all these stories use Mars in name only; like a stage backdrop, meaning it could have...
A wild-west walkabout on the thirsty surface of Mars. Our heroes travel a path of time-travel and mind, balancing between the now and madness.Image: Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick (1964) Got It CoveredMusic: (Alien 1963) Music No Copyright...
War, invasion, conquest all happening again on Mars. Beautifully written and one of our favorites. Bradbury makes the unbelievable believable with his poetry-like prose. Image: photo of cover by E. Bueschlen Music:(Alien 1963) Music No Copyright...