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The Martians
| Author: | Kim Stanley Robinson |
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HarperCollins/Voyager, 1999 |
| Series: | Mars Trilogy |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Colonization Hard SF Terraforming |
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Synopsis
A glorious companion volume to Robinson's world-wide bestselling trilogy.
All Colours Mars
Red Mars. Green Mars. Blue Mars...
The Mars trilogy has rapidly assumed the status of modern science fiction classic, capturing the imagination of hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. Now, with The Martians, comes Kim Stanley Robinson essential companion to the Mars series. New novellas and short stories head the collection, featuring many of the trilogy's central characters in events previously only hinted at in the novels. Added to this are works on Martian mythology, poetry, character histories, alternative scenarios to the events that actually took place in the trilogy and finally various pieces which the author omitted in the final edit.
In short, The Martians is a unique collection of previously unpublished fiction, a fascinating addition to Robinson's oeuvre, and a must for all lovers of the red planet.
Contents:
- Michel in Antarctica
- Exploring Fossil Canyon
- The Archaea Plot
- The Way the Land Spoke to Us
- The Great Escarpment
- Flatness
- Maya and Desmond
- Four Teleological Trails
- Wrong way
- Mistakes can be good
- You can't lose the trail
- The natural genius
- Coyote Makes Trouble
- Michel in Provence
- Green Mars
- Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars
- Salt and Fresh
- The Constitution of Mars
- Some Worknotes and Commentary on the Constitution, by Charlotte Dorsa Brevia
- Jackie on Zo
- Keeping the Flame
- Saving Noctis Dam
- Big Man in Love
- An Argument for the Deployment of All Safe Terraforming Technologies
- Selected Abstracts from The Journal of Areological Studies, vols. 56-64
- Odessa
- Sexual Dimorphism
- Enough Is as Good as a Feast
- What Matters
- Coyote Remembers
- Sax Moments
- A Martian Romance
- If Wang Wei Lived on Mars and other poems
- Visiting
- After a Move
- Canyon Colour
- Vastitas Borealis
- Night Song
- Desolation
- The Names of the Canals
- Another Night Song
- Six Thoughts on the Uses of Art
- What's in My Pocket
- In the Finale of Beethoven's Ninth
- Reading Emerson's Journal
- The Walkman
- Dreams Are Real
- Seen While Running
- Crossing Mather Pass
- Night in the Mountains
- Camp
- The Ground
- Writing by Starlight
- Invisible Owls
- Tenzing
- The Soundtrack
- A Report on the First Reported Case of Areophagy
- The Reds' Lament
- Two Years
- I Say Goodbye to Mars
- Purple Mars
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