Where No Gay Has Gone Before: Men on Mars!
For the past fifty years, we’ve been sending spacecraft tour next-door neighbor, Mars. Starting with Mariner 4 in 1965, which did the first flyby. The Soviets achieved the first soft landing with the Mars 3 probe in 1971. Long before those milestones, sci-fi authors have looked to the Red Planet with their own speculative fiction such as Mars being inhabited by aliens (Percival Lowell’s 1895 Mars) and Earthlings on Mars (Ray Bradbury’s 1950 The Martian Chronicles). Now such fiction could become reality in the next twenty years. Although the minimum distance between Earth and Mars is roughly 35 million … Read more