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A Conversation: Why I Make Up Stories About Mars

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No planet beyond Earth has generated more fascination or speculation than Mars. Listen in as two legends of Martian science fiction tell us why they put their heroes there, just as Edgar Rice Burroughs and Ray Bradbury did.