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"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...
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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
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A young man from Mars comes to Earth & must learn our strange ways. After his arrival on Earth from his home on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor of a new religious sect and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons, including grokking, watersharing, and love. One of the greatest science fiction novels ever published, Stranger in a Strange Land's original manuscript had 60,000 words cut. Here at last,...
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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War of the worlds: The residents of a small town are intrigued when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. But, they soon find Martians intend an assault on the Earth, with hundreds of invulnerable ships. The invasion takes place all over the world, all the major cities are destroyed one after one, and even the atomic bomb can't stop them.
When worlds collide: When scientists discover a distant planet is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth,...
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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The imaginative Backyardigans meet up for two musical adventures, with Uniqua, Pablo, and Austin blasting off to Mars, and Tyrone teaching apprentice Austin how to make the great Samurai Pie.
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.
