dying race

In this sci-fi drama, scientists arrive on Mars to find a planet populated by a subterranean, dying race similar to humans—who may be plotting a desperate invasion of Earth.

"This was a time when our people were denied access to lands, denied culture, language and were anticipated to be a dying race," said Romlie Mokak, head of the national Lowitja Institute for indigenous health research.

To Percival Lowell, the scion of a nineteenth-century Boston family, who was wealthy enough to build himself a world-class astronomical observatory, Mars was the tragic site on which a dying race of civil engineers built an elaborate, if illogically designed, canal system, in a desperate effort to redirect water from the polar ice caps to equatorial cities.

But the Navajo weren’t the dying race Curtis had them pegged for.

While Vaughan, used to a freer atmosphere, listened to their one-sided arguments, their trite prophecies, their incredible prejudices--such they seemed to him--and now turned up his nose, now pitied them, as an effete, a doomed, a dying race.