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1) Martians
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Martians uses gross, sometimes graphic humor that will appeal to fans of Mel Brooks, "Airplane!", and “Monty Python”. This book strives to make a comedy screenplay feel more like a novel and intends to make readers laugh. This character-driven novel revolves around messed up people geting into trouble and trying to solve their problems.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 8
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English
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In Arkansas, the appearance of crop circles in a cornfield puts Maggody, pop. 775, on the map. The novel follows police chief Arly Hanks as he copes with hysteria, the media, sightings of aliens and the murder of a ufologist.
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Hatred of the Martians was being deliberately exploited, and Scatterday knew why. And the only way to fight the enslavement of humans, was to assist the Martians, even though it meant risking lynch-law!
Fritz Leiber was a Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winning author who coined the phrase Swords and Sorcery.
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Martians, Go Home, originally published in 1955, is a comic science fiction novel that tells the story of Luke Devereaux, a science fiction writer who witnesses an alien invasion of little green men. These Martians haven't come to Earth to harm anyone-just to annoy people. Unable to touch the physical world, or be touched by it, they take great pleasure in walking through walls, spying on the private lives of humans-and revealing their every secret....
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"The Martians opens a door into a possibility that most would reject as impossible. But Nick Redfern in this provocative and exciting book makes a startling case for there being life on Mars-and, in fact, for the whole history of Mars being very, very different from what we have supposed. A wonderful adventure and a very exciting story!"-Whitley Strieber, #1 New York Times bestselling author, CommunionThe Martians is an in-depth study of the theory...
9) The Martians
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The Martians is an in-depth study of the theory that Mars was once a world that teemed with life. Perhaps, even, life not too dissimilar to ours. Incredibly, the Martians may still be there. Alive. The questions that this book asks and answers include the following:
• What kind of society did the Martians have?
• What caused their world to become harsh and desert-like?
• Did global warming or nuclear war ensure the extinction of the Martians?
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11) The Martians
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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Twenty-eight stories, including poetry, devoted to life on Mars. The story, Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars, is on the effect of the planet's gravity on the game of baseball, Jackie on Zo, is about childbirth on Mars, and Green Mars is on climbing a mountain.
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As the war between Earth and Mars heats up, threatening the potential destruction of both parties, Alex Smith and his Martian friend, Big Guy, are caught right in the middle-between the humans and the aliens, between various factions of their own people, between the inherent difficulty of establishing communication between two such dissimilar intelligences. Unless Alex can find some way of bridging the gulf between the worlds, both sides will be left...
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MASTER SPY OF THE RED PLANET Jery Delvin had a most unusual talent. He could detect the flaws in any scheme almost on sight-even where they had eluded the best brains in the ad agency where he worked. So when the Chief of World Security told him that he had been selected as the answer to the Solar System's greatest mystery, Jery assumed that it was because of his mental agility. But when he got to Mars to find out why fifteen boys had vanished from...
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Monster Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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When looking through their telescope gets Luna, Jupiter, and Clyde no closer to answering all their questions about Martians and life on Mars, the gang is going to have to become robots and explore Mars alongside the famous mars rover – Curiosity.
16) Dumb Martians
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Mars is the new frontier. Desolate, lawless and wild. Once home to an advanced alien civilisation, now home to every kind of riffraff from Earth hoping to build a new life amongst the ruins - or better yet, plunder some ancient Martian treasure.
The greatest prize of all is the City of the Dead, the fabled tomb of the high kings and queens of ancient Mars. It promises riches beyond imagination; people will kill to find it.
When Lellie's archaeologist...
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In 1901, the Martians attacked Earth, but tiny bacteria vanquished them. Their advanced weaponry lay everywhere-three-legged fighting machines, heat rays, and poison gas. Now, in 1917, The Great War rages across Europe but each side uses Martian technology. Join Corporal Johnny Branch, a young man from Wyoming, as he pursues his dream to fight for America. Follow magazine photographer Frank Robinson while he roams the front lines, hoping to snap a...
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The savage alien warriors need human mates. Twenty years ago, the Marttiaxoxalians conquered Earth. Though most of the "Martians" reside on terraformed Mars, mankind still lives under the rule of the powerful aliens. Life on Earth hasn't been easy since the war, and desperate human women are sometimes forced to become mail order brides to the Martians, just to save a family member from debtors' prison or to escape a bad situation on Earth. But is...
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