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'''Mars''' is the fourth planet in Earth's solar system. It is currently not thought to be the home of any civilizations, but early astronomers seeing lines on the Martian surface thought these lines might be canals built by a technological civilization. Numerous works of fiction expand on this idea, especially the early sword-and-planet fantasies of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett, which supposed that the canal-builders were of an earlier era that vanished with the dessication of the planet. The inhabitants of Burroughs' Mars (which they called "Barsoom") played a chess-like game called [[Barsoomian Jetan|Jetan]]. In ''Chessmen of Mars'', Burroughs also described a game of "living chess" in which humans were forced to fight each other in an arena governed by the rules of Jetan.

 

 

== Looney Pyramids from Mars ==