Talk about fake news: In 1907 a New York Times banner headline declared, “There Is Life On the Planet Mars.” Upping the ante the next year, the stodgy Wall Street Journal claimed “proof” of “conscious ...

Best-selling Boulder author David Baron readily admits that he didn’t consider himself a writer for a long time. That might be surprising to fans of his books – his debut, The Beast in the Garden, won ...

In The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America, science journalist and best-selling author David Baron offers a completely true look at America’s ...

In "The Martians," Baron captures the milieu spanning the ends of the Victorian and Edwardian eras without jeering at their lack of modern sensibilities. He leaves most opportunities for media ...