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crln-8517	Eberhart, George M.	New Publications	2011-02-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1246	56	61	n sGeorge M. Eberhart wake of Schiaparelli’s observation of canali in 1877; the Mars mania of the 1890s, cul- minating in H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds and astronomer Percival Lowell’s pursuit of the “canals” as evidence of Martian life; uto- pian reformist polemics, mediumistic fanta- sies, and the masculinist adventure tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs in the early 20th cen- tury; the emerging realism of science fiction at the dawn of the Space Age, exemplified by Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke; and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy of the 1990s, which blends all of the earlier themes into a hard-science saga of terraforming and colonization. However, his academic training as a folklor- ist enables him to treat the human experi- ence with UFOs as a “mystery of mythic proportions,” with parallels in the motif of otherworldly journeys, religious experience, magical forces, Jungian archetypes, and even Indian captivity narratives (when compared to UFO abduction tales).	cache/crln-8517.pdf	txt/crln-8517.txt