Mars in fiction from his home planet, often invading Earth, but sometimes simply a lonely character representing alienness from his surroundings. Martians, other than human beings transplanted to Mars, became rare in fiction after Mariner, except in exercises of deliberate nostalgia – more frequently in some genres, such as comics and animation, than in written literature. Mars in fiction Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century. Interest in Mars has been stimulated by the planet's dramatic red color, by early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life, and by the possibility that Mars could
Terraforming of Mars have risen high enough for seas and rivers to form. The 1993 space trading and combat game "", as well as its sequels "" (1995) and "Elite Dangerous" (2014), feature a terraformed Mars. The 1997 PC Real-time strategy game "Dark Colony" is based on a human-terraformed Mars, featuring a war between the colonizing humans and invading aliens of various life forms, with much use of biological warfare. The aliens try to colonize the terraformed planet for its resources. The 2009 video game "" is set on a partially terraformed Mars, in which human beings are able to walk and breathe