After the Martian Apocalypse by Mac Tonnies

Author:Mac Tonnies
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Paraview Pocket Books
Published: 2004-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Such enigmatic remarks suggest that, as long as we remain Earth-bound, we will be fated to ignorance of all things alien. The Face on Mars just might offer us something more substantial. Like an afterimage, the Face hovers over the Cydonia region—unaccountable, yet impossible to refute.

Both the Mars mystery and the often-surprising realm of terrestrial archaeology begin to make a superficial sense when seen from the perspective of Zechariah Sitchin, author of the Earth Chronicles series. Sitchin is a kind of culturally literate von Däniken, and his elaborate reimagining of the solar system has incredible appeal to a number of Mars anomalists despite his frequently shallow grasp of scientific concepts.

Sitchin’s detailed treatises on extraterrestrial visitors and human history reveal a formidable, if controversial, grasp of ancient languages; Sitchin navigates the Sumerian cuneiform and ancient Hebrew languages with the same fluid certainty that Richard Hoagland juggles NASA cover-ups and Masonic conspiracies.

Sitchin’s revisionist mythology, in which Sumerian and Babylonian folklore are given a space-age spin, presents no innate difficulty in dealing with a populated solar system, even though specific references to Mars are few and far between.

Surprisingly, no one is immune to this stew of memes. They manifest most visibly in the form of fiction, where we can deal with them in the virtual reality workstations of our imaginations, spared the burdens of consequence. For better or worse, Mars plays a central role in our space-age cosmology.

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