“This series shines a light onto many views of what it means to be human - and asks if can we sustain our humanity under incredible duress,” Spike TV's executive vice president, original series Sharon Levy said. Robinson will serve as a consultant on the project.

The series is considered a modern science fiction classic and garnered a combined two Hugo Awards, two Locus Awards, a Nebula Award and a British Science Fiction Association Award. The Wrap reports that producer Vince Gerardis ( Game of Thrones, FlashForward) has just landed a development deal at Spike TV for Red Mars, a drama series adapted from Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, made up of 1993's Red Mars, 1994's Green Mars, and 1996's Blue Mars. Rescue princesses from impenetrable fortresses, gallop across the sea bottoms of Barsoom astride your eight-legged thoat, or race through the thin air of Mars aboard your anti-gravity flier.One of the most acclaimed science fiction sagas of the last 25 years is headed for adaptation. Pay your respects to Ras Thavas, the Master Mind of Mars, who will be happy to transplant your brain into the body of your choice or maybe into the body of a giant ape. Take a trip down the sacred River Iss to the Valley Dor at Barsoom’s south pole, but be warned you might wind up the meal for a flesh-eating plant man! Visit the city of Manator, where the citizens play chess with live pieces to the death. In eleven books Burroughs takes the reader all around the Red Planet (and even to Jupiter), while the action and excitement never let up.

Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars (Barsoom) and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. With his opening trilogy, considered one of the landmarks of science fiction, Burroughs created a vast and sweeping epic. Writers like Ray Bradbury and scientists like Carl Sagan have acknowledged that Burroughs’ Martian tales were the wellspring from which their own careers arose. Even though science claims there is no life on Mars his stories remain vibrant and timeless tales, because Burroughs knew the appeal and power of the Martian myth. Edgar Rice Burroughs started writing his Martian adventures in 1911.

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