num_pages: 304
description: In the minds of readers and writers of science fiction and fantasy since H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, Mars has been the hottest of topics. The fourth planet from the sun is the confirmed obsession of millions of Earthlings, and it is not a fixation that will go away. Perhaps noting the tens of millions of hits on the NASA websites during the recent exploration of Mars, President Bush has declared a manned visit to the red planet the next great goal of the space program. The widespread passionate preoccupation with Mars, combined with the masterful storytelling of the legendary writers in this volume, will seize the imaginations of readers of any generation From the soul-searching poetry of Ray Bradbury's prose to the weirdly paranoid and baroque visions of Philip K. Dick, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Gordon Van Gelder offers some of the greatest science fiction writing on the red planet in Fourth Planet from the Sun..Contents xi • Introduction (Fourth Planet from the Sun) • essay by Gordon Van Gelder 1 • The Wilderness • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1952) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury 13 • Mars Is Ours • (1954) • shortstory by Alfred Coppel 27 • Crime on Mars • (1960) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Trouble With Time) 35 • Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon • (1964) • shortstory by Leigh Brackett 57 • A Rose for Ecclesiastes • (1963) • novelette by Roger Zelazny 101 • We Can Remember It for You Wholesale • (1966) • novelette by Philip K. Dick 127 • Hellas Is Florida • [Bradley Reynolds] • (1977) • novelette by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford 149 • In the Hall of the Martian Kings • (1966) • novella by John Varley 199 • The First Mars Mission • (1979) • shortstory by Robert F. Young 213 • The Last Mars Trip • (1992) • shortstory by Michael Cassutt 233 • The Great Martian Pyramid Hoax • (1995) • shortstory by Jerry Oltion 251 • Pictures from an Expedition • (2003) • novella by Alexander C. Irvine [as by Alex Irvine ]
language: English
title: Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
titlecomplete: Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
genres: Science Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories
ratings_count: 65
publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press