David Baron: The Martians used to be the good guys

December s Curious Reading Club book is The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by former NPR science editor David Baron—a rollicking read about the gilded age s obsession with aliens, and the space-obsessed Boston brahmin Percival Lowell who made it happen. David s book looks at how the craze took hold, [ ]