Edison's Conquest of Mars attempt at fiction, the book was published serially in the "New York Journal". Serviss went on to write other science fiction stories, arguably making him the first American to write science fiction professionally. An early example of what would later be called space opera, "Edison's Conquest of Mars" was also a particularly literal "Edisonade". The book contains some notable "firsts" in science fiction: alien abductions, spacesuits (called "air-tight suits": see Spacesuits in fiction), aliens building the Pyramids, space battles, oxygen pills, asteroid mining and disintegrator rays. The book is set following the abortive Martian attack depicted in "Fighters from Mars",
Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space on August 28, 2012, as a part of "Shrek's Spooky Stories". A sequel titled "Night of the Living Carrots" was released in October 2011 in two parts exclusively on the Nintendo 3DS video service. Directly following "Mutant Pumpkins", Dr. Cockroach, Link and B.O.B. try to defeat hundreds of zombie carrots. Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space is a 2009 Halloween television special, based on the film "Monsters vs. Aliens". It was produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Peter Ramsey. The special premiered in Ireland on RTÉ One on October