SciFi/Fantasy – May 30

“My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination – it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron.”
– Edgar Rice Burroughs

On this date in 1971, the USA launched the unmanned scientific probe Mariner 9 to Mars, where it became the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than the Earth.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist relies on the origin myths of the planets around the world you’ve created to inspire her/himself out of a treacherous situation.

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