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
Flight to Mars (film) proposed but never made. "Flight to Mars" is not in the public domain. The copyright was renewed under Certificate # RE-26-731/RE-37-81 from the Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Rights were assigned to Wade Williams. "The New York Times" film review notes: ""Flight to Mars" is the second American film of the postwar era (after the previous year's "Rocketship X-M") to depict a manned space trip to the Red Planet". Critical reaction to "Flight to Mars" was not positive. Film reviewer Glenn Erickson characterized the film as derivative. "Of all the early space movies, none is so disappointing as "Flight to