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",
Aliens in the Attic The film was previously titled "They Came from Upstairs", which is instead used as the film's tag line. A video game of the same name was released as well. "Aliens in the Attic" received mixed reviews from film critics but was a minor box office success. However, Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of 31/100%. The film was directed by John Schultz. A meteor shower rockets through open space. Four glowing pods are seen hiding behind the meteor shower. Suddenly the meteor shower makes a hard right and heads towards the distant planet Earth. In a Chicago suburb, Stuart Pearson