(Image credit: Marvel)Īfter that came Edgar Rice Burroughs and his 1917 tale, "A Princess of Mars," which appeared in serial form in 1912 and as a book five years later. The cover of "A Princess of Mars," a Marvel comic adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' epic 1917 book. "'Two Planets' had this powerful influence on the German Rocket Society and rocket pioneers such as Wernher von Braun - we might not have been able to reach the moon if weren't for this science fiction about Mars," Robinson said. Wells' " War of the Worlds" (1898), in which Martians invade Earth. The first major works to deal with Mars were Kurd Lasswitz's "Two Planets," an 1897 German novel that imagined a technological utopia on the Red Planet, and H.G. Still, "because of the Percival Lowell hallucinations, educated people from all over the planet from about 1895 to about 1935 could in good conscience believe there might be life on the next planet out, and maybe even intelligent life," said science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who has won Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards for his Mars trilogy ("Red Mars" in 1992, "Green Mars" in 1993 and "Blue Mars" in 1996) and is author of the forthcoming novel "2312." "Then we find what seem to be dried canals on Mars, and so that sparked the imagination - 'Hey, maybe there are dead civilizations on another planet.'"Īstronomical observations later revealed these "canals" to be optical illusions. "In the 19th century, you saw this whole cultural drive to investigate the past linked with the Western exploration of Africa, South America and Southeast Asia and tied with colonialism and imperialism," Nevins said. astronomer Percival Lowell wildly speculated that they were canals built by ancient Martian civilizations in a final effort to survive on their drying, dying world. Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli saw channels on the Red Planet, and U.S. The idea of intelligent Martians exploded in popularity in the 19th century. (Image credit: Tom Ruen, Eugene Antoniadi, Lowell Hess, Roy A. (Right) A Hubble Space Telescope photo of Mars shows the modern view of our neighboring planet. Oh well, I just wanted to make it look weird.(Left) This 1894 map of Mars was prepared by Eugene Antoniadi and redrawn by Lowell Hess. Another way one could look at it is this is what Roland Emmerich's version of King Kong would've looked like. I was going to shade his entire white body, but after several rounds doing so, I always found myself liking the pure white look, save for his leg in the back. I really wanted to go for alien, so making this creature as alien as possible was very important to me. The best way I would describe the creature to anyone is think of a chicken that after millions of years evolved into a gigantic predatory gorilla. It still technically has four arms but as you can see they are not in the traditional sense. Probably the most drastic change I made was with the Great White Ape. I hope to one day explain why he has that arm, or maybe have it just remain as an odd addition to this piece. While I was faithful to the "no clothes" rule, I gave my John an obnoxiously large metallic arm. This is my interpretation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom literary character, John Carter aka Dotar Sojat.
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