Back Mars in fiction English Marte en la ficción Spanish Mars dans la fiction French Mars sa litríocht fhicseanúil Irish Marte in le literatura phantastic Interlingua Marte nella fantascienza Italian 火星を扱った作品一覧 Japanese Marte na ficção Portuguese Марс в культуре Russian Марсовци Serbian
Novels and short stories about Mars have been popular for over a hundred years. The planet's dramatic red color that some people can see is one reason for this. another is that the planet is close to Earth. Also, it looks somewhat like Earth. There are also stories about creatures from Mars on Earth and elsewhere.
Near the end of the 19th century, the astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli reported seeing what he thought might be water channels on Mars. Because the Italian for channels is canali, English translations tended to render the word as "canals", implying artificial construction. This led to the idea of intelligent beings on Mars before it apparently dried up.
The following works of fiction deal with the planet itself, with any assumed Martian civilization as part of its planetary landscape.