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David Baron - Martians, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Martians

The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America

Av David Baron

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The The New York Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many believed intelligent life had been discovered on Mars. Reconstructed through newly discovered clippings, letters and photographs, The Martians begins in the 1890s with a Harvard scion who was so certain of his Mars discovery that he (almost) convinced a generation of astronomers that grainy photographs of the red planet revealed meltwater and an intricate canal system, declaring “there can be no doubt that living beings inhabit our neighbouring world” (The New York Times).A frenzied international controversy soon arose. Inventor Nikola Tesla announced he had received Martian radio signals, biologists debated whether Martians were winged or gilled and a new genre called science fiction arose. While Lowell’s claims were debunked, his influence sparked a compulsive interest in Mars and life in outer space that continues to this day.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-01
  • Mått: 140 x 211 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 275 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: W W Norton & Co Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781324099369
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David Baron is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author of The Beast in the Garden and American Eclipse. A former science correspondent for NPR, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, and other publications. David recently served as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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"The world is gaga for Mars. Its richest man, Elon Musk, is actively scheming to colonize the red planet over the next decade… Under the long, dark shadow cast by this ambition, the science journalist David Baron has produced a short, twinkling book about the origins of Mars mania… You can consider Baron a sort of sun, shedding light… In Baron’s true tale, reputations rise and fall, and ego distorts like a smudged lens."

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