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Index Martian

A Martian is a native inhabitant of the planet Mars. [1]

205 relations: A Princess of Mars, Action film, Adolf Hitler, Aelita (novel), Aether (classical element), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alien invasion, American Broadcasting Company, American Civil War, American frontier, Amy Wong, Animated series, Anthony Veiller, Anthropomorphism, Aqueduct (water supply), Argosy (magazine), Asaph Hall, Astronaut, Atlantis, Atmosphere of Mars, Barsoom, Berkeley Breathed, Bewitched, Biodiversity, Black comedy, Boarding school, Brian Hayles, Bugs Bunny, C. S. Lewis, Cambridge University Press, Canal, Captain Black (Captain Scarlet), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, CBS, Cephalopod, Christ figure, Civil and political rights, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Climate change, Climate of Mars, Closed-circuit television, Colonization of Mars, Colossus and the Crab, Comic novel, Construction worker, Cosmic pluralism, Cyberdemon, Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed, ..., David Starr, Space Ranger, DC Comics, DC Universe, Demon, Dennis Feltham Jones, Doctor Who, Doom 3, Doomguy, Double Star, Earthling, Edgar Rice Burroughs, England, Eric Frank Russell, Extraterrestrial life, Extraterrestrials in fiction, Fantasy film, Fredric Brown, Futurama, Genie in popular culture, Genocide, Ghosts of Mars, Giovanni Schiaparelli, God, Golden Age of Science Fiction, Graham Yost, H. G. Wells, H. R. Giger, Haredevil Hare, Harry Horner, Hélène Smith, Heat-Ray, Heinemann (publisher), Himalayas, Horror film, Hugo Gernsback, Humanoid, I Dream of Jeannie, Ice age, Ice Warrior, Incandescent light bulb, Indian reservation, International Exposition of Electricity, Invader Zim, Invaders from Mars (1953 film), Isaac Asimov, Jamie McCrimmon, Jim Thomas (screenwriter), John Carter of Mars, John L. Balderston, John Thomas (screenwriter), Jonathan Gems, Jovian (fiction), Justice League, Known Space, Larry Niven, Last and First Men, Life on Mars, List of reptilian humanoids, List of war deities, Little green men, London, Lyndon B. Johnson, Malin Space Science Systems, Mars, Mars (mythology), Mars Attacks!, Mars Needs Moms, Martian (The War of the Worlds), Martian canal, Martian Manhunter, Martian scientist, Martian Time-Slip, Martians, Go Home, Marvin the Martian, Material culture, Men, Martians and Machines, Meteorite, Meteorite classification, Midwestern United States, Miss Martian, Mission to Mars, Modern Electrics, Mont Blanc, Moons of Mars, My Favorite Martian, Mysteron, NBC, Nitric acid, Octopus, Olaf Stapledon, Out of the Silent Planet, Outer space, Pak Protector, Percival Lowell, Philip K. Dick, Picture book, Planetary romance, Planum Australe, Planum Boreum, Polar ice cap, Political fiction, Protector (novel), Pulp magazine, Quatermass and the Pit, Ralph 124C 41+, Ray Bradbury, Red Planet (novel), Red Planet Mars, Reflecting telescope, Resistance movement, Robert A. Heinlein, Roman mythology, Routledge, Ruling class, Science fiction, Second-class citizen, Serial (literature), Simon Wells, Sitcom, Social class, Soviet Union, Spaced Invaders, Stalin vs. Martians, Stranger in a Strange Land, Strategy video game, Suffrage, Superhero, Superman (comic book), Suspended animation, Telepathy, Telephone, Terraforming, The Ice Warriors, The Martian Chronicles, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Twilight Zone, The War of the Worlds, The War of the Worlds (radio drama), Tim Burton, Tobe Hooper, Topps, Total Recall (1990 film), Trading card, Trope (literature), United Artists, Venus, Venusians, Victoria Waterfield, W. S. Lach-Szyrma, Warner Bros., White Martian, Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?, William Cameron Menzies, Woking, Yip Yips. Expand index (155 more) »

A Princess of Mars

A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series.

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Action film

Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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Aelita (novel)

Aelita (Аэлита) also known as Aelita, or The Decline of Mars is a 1923 science fiction novel by Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy.

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Aether (classical element)

According to ancient and medieval science, aether (αἰθήρ aithēr), also spelled æther or ether and also called quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere.

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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Алексе́й Никола́евич Толсто́й; – 23 February 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.

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Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds

Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds is a science fiction novel by Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, a Polish-English curate, author, and historian.

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Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 18237 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.

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Alien invasion

The alien invasion or space invasion is a usual part of science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrials invade the Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under an intense state, harvest people for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American frontier

The American frontier comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912.

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Amy Wong

Amy Wong, voiced by Lauren Tom, is a main character from the Fox and Comedy Central television animated series Futurama.

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Animated series

An animated series is a set of animated works with a common series title, usually related to one another.

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Anthony Veiller

Anthony Veiller (23 June 1903 – 27 June 1965) was an American screenwriter and film producer.

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Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.

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Aqueduct (water supply)

An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to convey water.

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Argosy (magazine)

Argosy, later titled The Argosy and Argosy All-Story Weekly, was an American pulp magazine from 1882 through 1978, published by Frank Munsey.

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Asaph Hall

Asaph Hall III (October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877.

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Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

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Atlantis

Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, "island of Atlas") is a fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.

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Atmosphere of Mars

The atmosphere of the planet Mars is composed mostly of carbon dioxide.

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Barsoom

Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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Berkeley Breathed

Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip and more recent Internet cartoons that reflect sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters (e.g., Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and through humorous analogies.

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Bewitched

Bewitched is an American television sitcom fantasy series, originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from September 17, 1964 to March 25, 1972.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Brian Hayles

Brian Hayles (March 7, 1931 – October 30, 1978) was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Captain Black (Captain Scarlet)

Captain Black is the fictional nemesis of Captain Scarlet and the primary recurring Mysteron intermediary in the 1960s British Supermarionation science-fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and its 2005 computer-animated remake, Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet.

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Cephalopod

A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδα, kephalópoda; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus or nautilus.

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Christ figure

A Christ figure, also known as a Christ-Image is a literary technique that the author uses to draw allusions between their characters and the biblical Jesus.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Climate of Mars

The climate of the planet Mars has been an issue of scientific curiosity for centuries, in part because it is the only terrestrial planet whose surface can be directly observed in detail from the Earth with help from a telescope.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Colonization of Mars

Mars is the focus of much scientific study about possible human colonization.

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Colossus and the Crab

Colossus and the Crab is a 1977 science fiction novel by the British author Dennis Feltham Jones (writing as D. F. Jones).

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Comic novel

A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction.

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Construction worker

A construction worker is a tradesperson, laborer, or professional employed in the physical construction of the built environment and its infrastructure.

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Cosmic pluralism

Cosmic pluralism, the plurality of worlds, or simply pluralism, describes the philosophical belief in numerous "worlds" (planets, dwarf planets or natural satellites) in addition to Earth (possibly an infinite number), which may harbour extraterrestrial life.

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Cyberdemon

The Cyberdemon is a fictional character in the Doom gaming-franchise by id Software, where it was introduced in the first-person shooter game Doom in 1993.

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Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed

"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury.

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David Starr, Space Ranger

David Starr, Space Ranger is the first novel in the ''Lucky Starr'' series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.

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DC Universe

The DC Universe (DCU) is the fictional shared universe where most stories in American comic book titles published by DC Comics take place. DC superheroes such as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are from this universe, and it also contains well known supervillains such as the Lex Luthor, Joker, and Darkseid. In context, "DC Universe" usually refers to the main DC continuity. The term "DC Multiverse" refers to the collection of all continuities within DC Comics publications. Within the Multiverse, the main DC Universe has gone by many names, but in recent years has been referred to by "Prime Earth" (not to be confused with "Earth Prime") or "Earth 0". The main DC Universe as well as the alternate realities related to it began as the first shared universe in comic books and were quickly adapted to other media such as film serials or radio dramas. In subsequent decades, the continuity between all of these media became increasingly complex with certain storylines and events designed to simplify or streamline the more confusing aspects of characters' histories.

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Demon

A demon (from Koine Greek δαιμόνιον daimónion) is a supernatural and often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.

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Dennis Feltham Jones

Dennis Feltham Jones (1917–1981) was a British science fiction author who published under the name D. F. Jones.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Doom 3

Doom 3 (stylized as DOOM3) is a survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

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Doomguy

The Marine, commonly known as Doomguy and referred to as the Doom Slayer in the 2016 reboot of ''Doom'', is the unnamed player character in the Doom series of first-person shooters created by id Software, and its sequels and spin-off media.

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Double Star

Double Star is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (February, March, April 1956) and published in hardcover the same year.

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Earthling

Earthling, a term identifying inhabitants of the planet Earth, is commonly used in science fiction to contrast Earth-born organisms and characters, whose ethnicity or nationality diaspora originated on Earth, with extraterrestrials.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eric Frank Russell

Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Extraterrestrials in fiction

Extraterrestrials, a common theme in modern science-fiction, also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History by Lucian of Samosata.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer.

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Futurama

Futurama is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Genie in popular culture

Genies frequently occur as characters or plot elements in fictional works.

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Genocide

Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part.

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Ghosts of Mars

Ghosts of Mars is a 2001 American science fiction action horror film written, directed and scored by John Carpenter.

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Giovanni Schiaparelli

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli FRS(For) HFRSE (14 March 1835 Savigliano – 4 July 1910 Milan) was an Italian astronomer and science historian.

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God

In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.

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Golden Age of Science Fiction

The first Golden Age of Science Fiction—often recognized in the United States as the period from 1938 to 1946—was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published.

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Graham Yost

Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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H. R. Giger

Hans Ruedi Giger (5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss painter, whose style was adapted for many forms of media, including record albums, furniture and tattoos.

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Haredevil Hare

Haredevil Hare is a 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

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Harry Horner

Harry Horner (July 24, 1910 - December 5, 1994) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American art director who made a successful career in Hollywood as an Academy Award winning art director and as a feature film and television director.

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Hélène Smith

Hélène Smith (real name Catherine-Elise Müller, December 9, 1861, Martigny – June 10, 1929, Geneva) was a famous late-19th century French medium.

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Heat-Ray

The Heat-Ray is the primary offensive weapon used by the Martians in H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds and its offshoots.

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Heinemann (publisher)

Heinemann is a publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services established in 1978 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a U.S. subsidiary of Heinemann UK.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Hugo Gernsback

Hugo Gernsback (born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish-American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publications including the first science fiction magazine.

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Humanoid

A humanoid (from English human and -oid "resembling") is something that has an appearance resembling a human without actually being one.

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I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is an American fantasy sitcom starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ice Warrior

The Ice Warriors are a fictional extraterrestrial race of reptilian humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Incandescent light bulb

An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows with visible light (incandescence).

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Indian reservation

An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

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International Exposition of Electricity

The first International Exposition of Electricity in Paris ran from August 15, 1881 through to November 15, 1881 at the Palais de l'Industrie on the Champs-Élysées.

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Invader Zim

Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by Jhonen Vasquez for Nickelodeon.

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Invaders from Mars (1953 film)

Invaders from Mars is a 1953 independently made American SuperCinecolor science fiction film, produced by Edward L. Alperson Jr., directed by William Cameron Menzies, that stars Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Morris Ankrum, Leif Erickson, and Hillary Brooke.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Jamie McCrimmon

James Robert McCrimmon, usually simply called Jamie, is a fictional character played by Frazer Hines in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Jim Thomas (screenwriter)

James E. Thomas is an American screenwriter based in California.

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John Carter of Mars

John Carter of Mars is a fictional Virginian—a veteran of the American Civil War—transported to Mars and the initial protagonist of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom stories.

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John L. Balderston

John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts.

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John Thomas (screenwriter)

John C. Thomas is an American screenwriter based in California.

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Jonathan Gems

Jonathan Gems (born 1952, London) is a British playwright and screenwriter mostly known for his work on Mars Attacks!, directed by Tim Burton. He also wrote the film's novelization. The son of the playwright Pam Gems, Gems wrote a number of plays for theatres on the London fringe before gradually turning to screenwriting. As well as Mars Attacks!, Gems did uncredited rewrite work on Batman. Gems has written a number of unproduced scripts for Burton, including a Beetlejuice sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, an updating of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California, The Hawkline Monster, a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson and Go Baby Go, a beach movie in the style of Russ Meyer.

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Jovian (fiction)

In science fiction, a Jovian is an inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.

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Justice League

The Justice League is a team of fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Known Space

Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Last and First Men

Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon.

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Life on Mars

The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of significant interest to astrobiology due to its proximity and similarities to Earth.

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List of reptilian humanoids

Reptilian humanoids appear in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories.

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List of war deities

A war deity is a god or goddess in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed.

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Little green men

Little green men is the stereotypical portrayal of extraterrestrials as little humanoid-like creatures with green skin and sometimes with antennae on their heads.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

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Malin Space Science Systems

Malin Space Science Systems (or MSSS) is a San Diego, California company that designs, develops, and operates instruments to fly on unmanned spacecraft.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.

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Mars (mythology)

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Mars (Mārs) was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome.

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Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks! is a 1996 American comic science fiction horror film directed by Tim Burton, who also co-produced it with Larry J. Franco.

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Mars Needs Moms

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Martian (The War of the Worlds)

The Martians, also known as the Invaders, are the fictional race of extraterrestrials from the H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds.

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Martian canal

For a time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was erroneously believed that there were canals on Mars.

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Martian Manhunter

The Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Martian scientist

A Martian scientist or Martian researcher is a hypothetical Martian frequently used in thought experiments as an outside observer of conditions on Earth.

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Martian Time-Slip

Martian Time-Slip is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.

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Martians, Go Home

Martians, Go Home is a science fiction comic novel by American writer Fredric Brown, published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction on September 1954 and later by E. P. Dutton in 1955.

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Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian is a character from Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.

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Material culture

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Men, Martians and Machines

Men, Martians and Machines is a collection of science fiction short stories by the British writer Eric Frank Russell.

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Meteorite

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Meteorite classification

The ultimate goal of meteorite classification is to group all meteorite specimens that share a common origin on a single, identifiable parent body.

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Midwestern United States

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Miss Martian

Miss Martian (real name M'gann M'orzz, alias Megan Morse) is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars is a 2000 American science fiction adventure film directed by Brian De Palma from an original screenplay written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas, and Graham Yost.

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Modern Electrics

Modern Electrics was a technical magazine for the amateur radio experimenter.

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Mont Blanc

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Moons of Mars

The two moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos.

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My Favorite Martian

My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes (75 in black and white: 1963–65, 32 color: 1965–66).

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Mysteron

The Mysterons are a fictional race of extraterrestrials.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nitric acid

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Octopus

The octopus (or ~) is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda.

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Olaf Stapledon

William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) – known as Olaf Stapledon – was a British philosopher and author of science fiction.

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Out of the Silent Planet

Out of the Silent Planet is a science fiction novel by the British author C. S. Lewis, published in 1938 by John Lane, The Bodley Head.

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Outer space

Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.

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Pak Protector

Pak Breeders and Pak Protectors are two developmental stages of fictional life in Larry Niven's Known Space universe.

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Percival Lowell

Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.

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Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction.

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Picture book

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children.

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Planetary romance

Planetary romance is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures on one or more exotic alien planets, characterized by distinctive physical and cultural backgrounds.

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Planum Australe

Planum Australe (Latin: "the southern plain") is the southern polar plain on Mars.

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Planum Boreum

Planum Boreum (Latin: "the northern plain") is the northern polar plain on Mars.

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Polar ice cap

A polar ice cap or polar cap is a high-latitude region of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite that is covered in ice.

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Political fiction

Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories.

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Protector (novel)

Protector is a 1973 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.

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Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959.

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Ralph 124C 41+

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Red Planet (novel)

Red Planet is a 1949 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about students at boarding school on the planet Mars.

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Red Planet Mars

Red Planet Mars is a 1952 American science fiction film released by United Artists starring Peter Graves and Andrea King.

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Reflecting telescope

A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image.

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Resistance movement

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (See also the biography at the end of For Us, the Living, 2004 edition, p. 261. July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science-fiction writer.

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Roman mythology

Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.

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Routledge

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Ruling class

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Second-class citizen

A second-class citizen is a person who is systematically discriminated against within a state or other political jurisdiction, despite their nominal status as a citizen or legal resident there.

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Serial (literature)

In literature, a serial, is a printing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential installments.

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Simon Wells

Simon Wells (born 1961) is an English film director of animation and live-action films.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Spaced Invaders

Spaced Invaders is a 1990 American science fiction comedy directed by Patrick Read Johnson and starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano and Ariana Richards.

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Stalin vs. Martians

Stalin vs.

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Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein.

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Strategy video game

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Suffrage

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).

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Superhero

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Superman (comic book)

Superman is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Superman as its main protagonist. Superman began as one of several anthology features in the National Periodical Publications comic book Action Comics #1 in June 1938. The strip proved so popular that National launched Superman into his own self-titled comic book, the first for any superhero, premiering with the cover date Summer 1939. Between 1986 and 2006 it was retitled The Adventures of Superman while a new series used the title Superman. In May 2006, it was returned to its original title and numbering. The title was canceled with issue #714 in 2011, and was relaunched with issue #1 the following month which ended its run in 2016. A fourth series was released with issue #1 in June 2016 and ended in April 2018. A fifth series with new issue #1 will be launched in July 2018.

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Suspended animation

Suspended animation is the inducement of a temporary cessation or decay of main body functions, including the brain, to a hypometabolic state in order to try to preserve its mental and physiological capabilities.

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Telepathy

Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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Telephone

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Terraforming

Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life.

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The Ice Warriors

The Ice Warriors is the partly missing third serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 11 November to 16 December 1967.

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The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story fixup by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists.

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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by US writer Philip K. Dick.

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The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling.

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The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US.

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The War of the Worlds (radio drama)

"The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air.

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Tim Burton

Timothy Walter BurtonTim Burton's middle name is cited as Walter by the Museum of Modern Art on its and covering Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker, though it is cited as William by other sources, such as the (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator.

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Tobe Hooper

Willard Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work in the horror genre.

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Topps

The Topps Company, Inc., manufactures chewing gum, candy, and collectibles.

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Total Recall (1990 film)

Total Recall is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside.

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Trading card

A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia).

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Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.

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Venusians

In science fiction and ufology, a Venusian or Venerian is a native inhabitant of the planet Venus.

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Victoria Waterfield

Victoria Waterfield is a fictional character played by Deborah Watling in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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W. S. Lach-Szyrma

The Reverend Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, M.A., F.R.H.S. (25 December 1841 – 25 June 1915) was an English curate, historian and science fiction writer.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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White Martian

The White Martians are one of three fictional extraterrestrial races native to Mars in the DC Comics' shared universe.

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Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" is episode 64 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on May 26, 1961 on CBS.

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William Cameron Menzies

William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957) was an American film production designer (a job title he invented) and art director as well as a film director and producer during a career spanning five decades.

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Woking

Woking is a town in northwest Surrey, England.

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Yip Yips

The Yip Yips (also known as the Martians or aliens) are characters on the popular American children's television show Sesame Street.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian

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