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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America cover

The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America cover
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America cover The Martians by David Baron explores America’s early-20th-century fascination with Mars, recounting how scientists, inventors, and the public became convinced that intelligent life existed on the red planet. It examines the rise and fall of Percival Lowell’s canal theory and reflects on how this Martian mania shaped modern science fiction and our ongoing tendency to project human hopes and fears onto Mars. Liveright Publishing