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Robinson Crusoe on Mars: Life on Mars
In my dreams, Mars keeps changing: gone are the verdant Barsoomian fields explored by John Carter and Princess Dejah Thoris in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novels; the arid, canal-laced deserts that witnessed the final exodus of H. G. Wells’s desper…
First Man Into Space,
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Began to Seriously Consider Marrying a Monster from Outer Space
Looking back fondly on First Man into Space, I’m forced to acknowledge that time has been slightly less than merciful to us both—and I’ve been around seven years longer than it has. First Man into Space (1959) emerged at a very odd moment in h…