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Re:Where did all the starships go? by stavros on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:12PM (#46938566)
Wait, what's the play on words in The Martian?
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Re:Where did all the starships go? by tialaramex on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:52AM (#46973440)
Generally in SF genre fiction "Martian" means a space alien, a being native to the planet Mars e.g. the antagonists in "War of the Worlds" are Martians.

However the word can also mean, and does in the case of the novel, a person who merely lives on the planet Mars, as Mark Wayney does.

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Re:Where did all the starships go? by stavros on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:55AM (#46973459)
Hm, right. I somehow never really saw those two as different, hm.
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