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...orange glow as an omen of bloodshed and disaster. Looking more objectively at the red planet through powerful telescopes, modern astronomers have attributed its odd color to deposits of iron-rich minerals like limonite. Now two former University of Massachusetts researchers have proposed a new explanation of the puzzling Martian hue. During a recent meeting at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, Physicists William T. Plummer and Robert K. Carson reported that parts of Mars may be covered by a strange kind of tinted "snow...
...without Buck Rogers there might not have been any Martian Chronicles. There almost certainly would not have been any Flash Gordon, Or "This Island Universe." Or "Fireball XL-5." Or Roger Ramjet...
...Dille apparently considers the strip an historical artifact rather than a good story. In the selection of Sunday strips which follows, he cuts one story off arbitrarily to make room for an example from a later period. Black Barney and his companion Buddy Deering have just escaped from a Martian slave labor camp, and are looking for some way to remove the remote control bombs which the Martians have welded around their waists. In the last panel, Barney realizes that he has forgotten to dismantle the radio detonators which can blow them to Phobos and Deimos at any minute. Then...
...Like Referees. In the book, the Martian established a sort of religious colony called a "family" or "nest"-not unlike the commune that Manson led at a deserted movie-location ranch. Inhabitants of the novel's nest practiced free sexual sharing and group nudity, very much the way life was lived at Manson's ranch. In book and in life, the complete abandonment of personal ego to the all-powerful leader, usually through sexual submissiveness, was essential. The fictional Smith and the real Manson apparently shared a belief in their oneness with God. "Among Martians," Heinlein...
...most disquieting similarity between Manson's life and the novel concerns death. Heinlein's Martian teaches a bizarre philosophy of reincarnation. Beings do not die; they are simply "discorporated" and "sent back to the end of the line to try again." He enlists one of his female followers to help him discorporate some enemies of the cult. The Martian makes a list of those to be dispatched, and in one evening 450 are killed. Police believe that Manson, like the Martian, used his women to perform the grisly revenge that he sought on the group gathered with Sharon...