Mars has long been the focus of our science fictional imagination. So what's the deal? How is setting a book or a colony on the red planet different from setting it elsewhere in our solar system? We get into the nitty gritty of Percival Lowell, Edgar Rice Burroughs, "The Expanse," Mariner 1, Mark Watney's potatoes, and much much more. While you're reading this, you should look up K. Maria D. Lane's "Geographies of Mars" and Carl Abbott's "Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West." We promise you won't regret it!

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