Fact or Fiction: Which Mars Science Fiction Author Are You Most Closely Connected To?

Question

This week's Example Profile of the Week is Ray Bradbury, author of the Martian Chronicles, in honor of the planet Mars being in opposition to Earth this week. 

Featured alongside him are other science fictions authors who have imagined life on Mars:

• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Isaac Asimov
• H.G. Wells
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Frederik Pohl, Jr.
• Robert Heinlein
• Sir Arthur C. Clarke
• Philip K. Dick

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 20,613,000 of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can also check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them?

Let us know below!

P.S. Help us choose and improve profiles for next week's feature: Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists.

Comments

Rather than calculate each one, I will wait for my Family News feed.  I have read very little science fiction.  Onre of my favorite quotes is from Isaac Asimov:

"Never let your sense of morality get in the way of doing what's right."

Asimov

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What about Kim Stanley Robinson?

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Hello Dan,

He's still living, so he wasn't an option. Hee'll definitely be on that list someday, though! I own the Mars series :-)

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Ray Bradbury would be a cousin I would be very proud to have in my tree... But it's not connected yet! (I think, I have never had a positive connection yet, any suggestions?)

Mary Wollestoncraft Godwin Shelley would be a nice anchor to explore.

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Ray Bradbury is my 5th cousin once removed That's the closest I get to any of them.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson

She's a he.

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Isaac Asimov and Edgar Burroughs are neck-and-neck for me: 25 degrees each.

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17 from Burroughs, but fewer marriages on the path to Clarke, Bradbury, and Heinlein.

Answer 1

I'm just 15 degrees from Ray Bradbury. It's been fun looking at all these lines this week!

Answer 2

connected to all.   Ray Bradbury is 17th cousin twice removed.  Edgar Rice Burroughs is 16th cousin twice removed.

jan

Answer 3

My DH is 23 degrees from Robert Heinlein so that makes me 24 degrees, no matter that it isn't closer, Heinlein is my choice to read from those on the list, and we also have most of his books.

I spent several weeks rereading them this spring as the library was closed.

Answer 4

• 16 degrees from Kurt Vonnegut
• 19 degrees from Edgar Rice Burroughs - 12c2xr
• 19 degrees from Robert Anson Heinlein
• 20 degrees from Isaak Yudovich (Ozimov) Asimov
• 20 degrees from Ray Douglas Bradbury - 12c4xr
• 21 degrees from Philip Kindred Dick
• 25 degrees from Frederik George Pohl
• 27 degrees from Arthur Charles Clarke
• 27 degrees from Herbert George Wells

Answer 5

Most closely connected at 17 degrees with Kurt Vonnegut (no blood relation).

Cousins:

Edgar Rice Burroughs--12th cousins, twice removed

Ray Bradbury--15th cousins, three times removed

Answer 6

18 degrees from Robert Heinlein.

Answer 7

22 degrees from Edgar Burroughs

22 degrees from H G Wells

25 degrees from Ray Bradbury

25 degrees from Isaac Osimov

27 degrees from Philip K Dick

27 degrees from Robert Heinlein

28 degrees from Sir Arthur C Clarke

29 degrees from Kurt Vonnegut, Jn.

34 degrees from Frederick Pohl, Jn.