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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 14:54:04 -0800, John Ames    
   wrote:   
      
   >It'd be interesting to track the evolution of Mars in popular culture   
   >over time, as the accuracy of our astronomical observations improved.   
   >The "canals" were always a mistranslation from Schiaparelli's "canali,"   
   >but I don't think the idea was conclusively debunked 'til the 1900s.   
   >Nevertheless, Burroughs's Barsoom is a dying, desert world, and Welles   
   >has implications of the same as the motive for his Martian invasion.   
      
   It's been done for Venus:   
      
   Aldiss, Brian (ed) 1971. Farewell, fantastic Venus. London:   
                  Panther.   
                      Venus in science fiction & fantasy   
      
   I tried to remove AUE from follow-ups, but something, possibly Eternal   
   September, would not let me.   
      
      
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