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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In December 1960, Rick Hayworth drives his genius girlfriend, Crystal, and three other MIT grad students across the country to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs the Martian civilization carved onto its surface. The latest proof, which seems to assert contradictory truths about distance, has resisted human understanding for decades. Crystal thinks she's...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
600 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this spellbinding novel from Hugo Award-winning author Hao Jingfang. This genre-bending novel is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war...not between two factions in one nation, but...
Author
Language
English
Description
A young man from Mars comes to Earth & must learn our strange ways. Annotation. One of the greatest science fiction novels ever published, Stranger in a Strange Land's original manuscript had 50,000 words cut. Now they have been reinstated for this special 30th anniversary trade edition. A Mars-born earthling arrives on this planet for the first time as an adult, and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons. "A brilliant mind-bender".--Kurt...
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as, one by one, the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
2015, ©1986.
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Little David Garner's starry-eyed dreams turn into an out-of-this-world nightmare when invaders from the red planet land in his backyard and unleash their hostilities on unsuspecting earthlings! Paralyzed with fear as the aliens take over the minds of his mom, dad and even his schoolmates, David must somehow find a way to stop them -before they turn the whole human race into brain-dead zombies of space!
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 minutes) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gang travels to outer space and an underground Martian city. Alicia Keys is the voice of Mommy Martian. Then they master the art of making pies like samurais.
9) Mars life
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 15
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing-- neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester--can stop it.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1,080 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This set collects all 12 movies riffed and released by Cinematic Titanic, combining all their published mayhem, including their in-studio and live DVDs. To MSTies, this collection belongs on your shelf. To everyone else, this collection belongs on your shelf.
Series
Paramount presents volume 35
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Blu-ray (82 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in).
Language
English
Description
The war of the worlds: A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing-- neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester-- can stop it.
When worlds collide: As a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically...
Publisher
Ignite Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages, illustrations, 12 x 14 cm)
Language
English
Description
The original 20th century landmark science fiction thriller that played on the paranoia and Communist threat invading Atomic Age America in the 1950s. A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as, one by one, the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars.
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