10 out of this world science fiction books about Mars

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Ray Bradbury's classic collection of science fiction stories, "The Martian Chronicles," imagines humans settling the Red Planet. (Doubleday Dell)

The Curiosity rover has successfully landed on Mars, and has already sent back its first photograph. It was thrilling, but just rubble: not a princess, vicious warrior or trisexual creature to be seen. That is the province of science fiction; perhaps, more than any single planet, Mars has been the focus of the imagination of the most iconic authors of the 20th century.