Editing Mars in fiction (section)

=== Means of travel ===
{{Further|Space travel in science fiction}}
The question of how humans would get to Mars was addressed in several ways: when not travelling there via spaceship as in the 1911 novel ''[[To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story]]'' by Mark Wicks,<ref name="CrossleyUtopia" /> they might use a [[flying carpet]] as in the 1905 novel ''[[Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation]]'' by [[Edwin Lester Arnold]],<ref name="HotakainenMarsFiction" /><ref name="Webster" /><ref name="CrossleyMasculinistFantasies">{{Cite book |last=Crossley |first=Robert |title=[[Imagining Mars: A Literary History]] |date=2011 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0-8195-6927-1 |pages=149–167 |language=en |chapter=Masculinist Fantasies |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3TDEDfEPdEC&pg=PA149}}</ref> a [[Balloon (aeronautics)|balloon]] as in ''A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont among the Planets'',<ref name="SFEMars" /> or an "aeroplane" as in the 1893 novel ''[[Unveiling a Parallel]]: A Romance'' by [[Alice Ilgenfritz Jones]] and {{Interlanguage link|Ella Robinson Merchant|ca}} (writing jointly as "Two Women of the West").<ref name="CrossleyUtopia" /> They might also visit in a dream as in the 1899 play ''[[A Message from Mars (play)|A Message from Mars]]'' by [[Richard Ganthony]],<ref name="CrossleyUtopia" /> [[Teleportation|teleport]] via [[astral projection]] as in Burroughs's ''A Princess of Mars'',<ref name="GreenwoodMars" /><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Harpold |first1=Terry |title=Visions of Mars: Essays on the Red Planet in Fiction and Science |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8470-6 |editor-last=Hendrix |editor-first=Howard V. |editor-link=Howard V. Hendrix |pages=32 |language=en |chapter=Where Is Verne's Mars? |quote=In Edgar Rice Burroughs's novels, John Carter travels to Barsoom by means of "astral projection," a way of moving the mind without moving the body. |editor-last2=Slusser |editor-first2=George |editor-link2=George Slusser |editor-last3=Rabkin |editor-first3=Eric S. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XjIglebU6CIC&pg=PA32}}</ref> or use a long-range communication device while staying on Earth as in Braine's ''Messages from Mars, By Aid of the Telescope Plant'' and the 1894 novel ''[[W nieznane światy]]'' (''To the Unknown Worlds'') by [[Polish science fiction]] writer [[Władysław Umiński]].<ref name="SFEMars" /><ref name="CrossleyInventingANewMars" /><ref name="MarsAntologiaPolskiejFantastyki" /><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2024<!-- 22 February --> |title=Umiński, Władysław |encyclopedia=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]] |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/uminski_wladyslaw |access-date=2024-03-03 |edition=4th |author1-last=Konieczny |author1-first=Piotr |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-link=David Langford |editor3-link=Graham Sleight |editor3-first=Graham |editor3-last=Sleight}}</ref> [[Anti-gravity]] is employed in several works including Greg's ''Across the Zodiac'', MacColl's ''Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet'', and the 1890 novel ''[[A Plunge into Space]]'' by [[Robert Cromie]].<ref name="AshleyLostMars" /><ref name="Webster" /><ref name="Baxter">{{cite magazine |last=Baxter |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Baxter (author) |date=Autumn 1996 |title=Martian Chronicles: Narratives of Mars in Science and SF |magazine=[[Foundation (journal)|Foundation]] |publisher=[[Science Fiction Foundation]] |issue=68 |pages=5–16 |issn=0306-4964}}</ref> Occasionally, the method of transport is not addressed at all.<ref name="CrossleyUtopia" /> Some stories take the opposite approach of having Martians come to Earth; examples include the 1891 novel ''[[The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion]]'' by Thomas Blot (pseudonym of William Simpson) and the 1893 novel ''[[A Cityless and Countryless World]]'' by [[Henry Olerich]].<ref name="SFEMars" /><ref name="CrossleyUtopia" />