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...remember middle school? That's right, that time when a fleet of Martian zit-creatures had declared war on your face, when you had about $3,000 worth of metal clamped to your distorted teeth, and an lzod alligator adorned every article of your clothing...
After a few decades of familiarization and exploration had established that there was no indigenous Martian life, humans might be ready to undertake the ultimate real estate-development project: the greening of Mars. The first step, according to one recent study, would be to warm the planet by releasing large amounts of chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere. These gases would act like a greenhouse, trapping the sun's heat. As the planet warmed, the polar caps would begin to melt, releasing water vapor and carbon dioxide into the Martian air, thickening it and increasing the greenhouse effect. Eventually the permafrost, where...
...THINK I'm overreacting? (I do,after all, come from a long line of overreacters.)Meet Franck (Martin Short), the Banks' vaguelyextraterrestrial "wedding coordinator."Extravagance personified. Frank is George's comicfoil. His role is to prance around the peripheriesof the Banks family like a Martian ballet danceron speed, constantly inventing innovative albeitincomprehensible ways to make Annie's "lohhhvlahwahhhdink" cost more while George winces andbellyaches about bankruptcy. (Annie is far toonice to ask for anything fancy herself. But youjust know she's beggin...
Reinaldo Arenas' book, The Doorman, bears some resemblance to the popular Ray Bradbury work The Martian Chronicles. Both satirize contemporary life by mixing symbols of daily existence with elements of the fantastic. In Bradbury's book, however, these various aspects were perfectly mixed and balanced. The author wove his tale using both these elements as his thread. Arenas is not nearly so skilled a craftsman...
When the Soviet President and his wife visited the U.S. recently, the writer they most wanted to meet was Ray Bradbury: their daughter is a fan. Irina is not alone. Bradbury's classic novels of fantasy and science fiction (The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451) have long been best sellers in 20 countries -- including, of course, the U.S.S.R...