Rainbow Mars

Rainbow Mars is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven, in which humans from Earth visit the Mars and find it populated by the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, C.S. Lewis, H.G. Wells, and Stanley G. Weinbaum - in short, all the great science fiction writers who have written about Mars. This means that Mars is a very crowded planet, inhabited by seven different intelligent species and cultures.

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Science fiction - Novel - Larry Niven - Human - Earth - Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Ray Bradbury - C.S. Lewis - H.G. Wells - Stanley G. Weinbaum - Writer - Species - Culture

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The book follows up on a series of short stories by Niven, anthologized in Flight of the Horse, in which he introduced the Temporal Research Institute. The premise of the novel is that the old Secretary-General has recently died; his heir is more interested in extraterrestrials than the Earth beasts that went extinct due to excess pollution. This left the Temporal Institute scrambling to invent space flight, and several of its agents to visit Mars.

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Flight of the Horse - Temporal Research Institute

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