Mars, the Red Planet. The subject of numerous novels, well into the thousands, and movies well into the hundreds and counting. Most people could probably name at least one Mars novel or movie. One of the more famous classic movies, War of the Worlds, was released in 1953 and inspired by the H.G. Wells book, War of the Worlds, published in 1898. The classic wasn't about Mars per se; it went further, centering on a Martian invasion of Earth. An interesting illustration of fasci