Martians & Earthers

Not sure what classics to eliminate, but a couple of more recent movies include:
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Mars Attacks! (1996) - IMDb

Mars Attacks!: Directed by Tim Burton. With Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan. Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
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Mars Needs Moms (2011) - IMDb

Mars Needs Moms: Directed by Simon Wells. With Seth Green, Dan Fogler, Joan Cusack, Elisabeth Harnois. A young boy named Milo gains a deeper appreciation for his mom after Martians come to Earth to take her away.
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There's Wells and Bradbury, obviously, but how about PK Dick's Martian Time-Slip, which includes a race of Martians who seem to be "moved" humans that the hero visits, or the creatures Ransome encounters in Out of the Silent Planet? There's the cartoon Marvin the Martian and the creatures from Martian, Go Home! I think John Wyndham's early pulp stuff included a few explorers who went to Mars, including some communists.
 
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The Expanse series by James S A Corey explores a solar system in which humans have colonized many of the other planets, incl Mars, and asteroid belt. One of the ongoing themes is the socio-economic, military, and political frictions between the "Martians" (humans who have only known life on the red planet and bristle at Earth's attempts to control them), the people of Earth, and the humans who live and work among the outer planets and the asteroid belt.
 
As Toby says, there's Wyndham's Stowaway to Mars, and the precursor to that, a short story called The lost machine, which describes a Martian robot that gets stranded on Earth.
Lucky Starr Space Ranger is the first of a series of 6 pre-teen SF books by Asimov which is set on Mars. The rest of the series take David Starr to other planets in the solar system.
There's Barsoom, of course.
And the disappointing Heinlein book, The Number of the Beast, which goes to Mars.
 
OuttaInc said:
The Expanse series by James S A Corey explores a solar system in which humans have colonized many of the other planets, incl Mars, and asteroid belt. One of the ongoing themes is the socio-economic, military, and political frictions between the "Martians" (humans who have only known life on the red planet and bristle at Earth's attempts to control them), the people of Earth, and the humans who live and work among the outer planets and the asteroid belt.
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Came here to recommend this.
 
An unusual example of an Earthman going to Mars might be Robert Sheckley's Mindswap. Another example of a visit to Mars might be the short story A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny
 
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Red Planet by Robert Heinlein. One of his better juveniles.
 
paranoid marvin said:
Probably doesn't need mentioning but The Martian is a fine film (haven't read the book yet).
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Unrelated to the question, but Project Hail Mary by the same author is arfing phenomenal. Listen to it on audiobook - the characterizations just bring a whole new level to the thing.
 
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