Mars is Heaven

Published 1948
 Author

Timeline

Characters

Contents
Story

Technology

Questions!
Author

Ray Bradbury
1920-2012
Wrote since 12 years old
Fahrenheit 451
Not eligible for military service
Timeline

1948 Mars
is Heaven is
1920 Birth published

1947 Sound Barrier broken 1953

Cold war begins Fahrenheit
451
Kon Tiki expedition
Characters

 Earthmen:
 Captain
 Archaelogist
 Navigator
 Marsmen
 Captains brother
Location

 Mars
Story

 1960 (12 yrs future) , first landing on mars

First theory

 Rocket travel in secret. Before the first world war

 Hinted by old structures
Second theory

 By accident, they landed back on earth, 30 years prior.

Third theory

 Additional to the first theory

 People were homesick
 Soloution is mass hypnosis
Archaeologist meets father

 Short video
 The group goes along with the aarchaeologists father for lemonade.
 Explanation of second life.
Pilot meets brother

 Goes home with his brother to mum and dad

 Big party
Final theory

 Video
Themes

 Humans see what they want to see, especially in confusion

 Don’t trust everything
 Fear of the unknown
Parallells

 Kon tiki expedition

Technology

 Human
 Atomic weapons
 Spaceship
 Alien
 Hypnosis
 Telepathy, mind reading
Chronological order

 Linear, no time jumps

 Omnipresent narrator
Awards

None
1966 nebula awards
mars is heaven 1948
Ray
Prediction of
the future
 Writen in 1948, for 1960
 First moon landing 1969
 SpaceX plans to depart
2024.
Thanks for listening
Discuss the following

 Put yourself in the captains shoes. Would you have fallen for the aliens
trick?
 Imagine you were one of the aliens, a master at mind reading, telepathic,
hypnotizing. What other tactics would you have chosen against humans
with superior weapons and technology.
 How would a war between humanity and these aliens play out?
 Do you think martians ever existed?
 Could you imagine yourself on SpaceX’s one way trip to mars?
 Will we experience the humanitys first steps on mars in our lifetime?
 Imagine the story written today, if the first humans landing would meet
aliens.
sources

 http://coolsciencedad.blogspot.com/2019/06/mars-is-heaven-
book-review.html
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury
 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Bell_X-1.jpg
 https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/tiki-boat.jp
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAqtvKmCZZI
 https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1184341/spacex-starshi
p-elon-musk-moon-mars-mission-space-rocket-prototype
 http://bradburymedia.blogspot.com/2014/02/ray-bradbury-award-
for-outstanding.html