The MartiansThe Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed that we had discovered intelligent life on Mars. The Martians a truly bizarre tale reconstructed through newly discovered clippings, letters, and photographs by bestselling science writer David Baron begins in the 1890s with Percival Lowell, a wealthy Harvard scion who was so certain of his Mars discovery that he (almost) convinced a generation of astronomers that