Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series (1917-1922) and “ A Martian Odyssey ,” by Stanley G. Weinbaum (1934). • Works from the mid-century cannon, such as Red Planet , by Robert Heinlein (1949), The Sands of Mars , by Arthur C. Clarke (1951), and Martian Time-Slip , by Philip K. Dick (1964). •