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",
From Mars to Sirius most angry, mechanized portions of the album." Bergman concluded his review by praising "From Mars to Sirius" as an "immense, intense, and very impressive album." Personnel adapted from AllMusic. From Mars to Sirius From Mars to Sirius is the third studio album by the French progressive death metal band Gojira. "Rolling Stone" named the album no. 97 on their list of the top 100 greatest metal albums of all time, and "MetalSucks" named it no. 9 on their list of the 21 best metal albums of the 21st century. AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia describes the album as marking a turning point