Dying planet
Subtitle: Mars in science and the imagination
By: Robert Markley.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Science fiction, American -- History and criticism; Mars (Planet) -- In literature; Mars (Planet)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-435) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A situation in many respects similar to our own" : Mars and the limits of analogy; title: Lowell and the canal controversy : Mars at the limits of vision; title: "Different beyond the most bizarre imaginings of nightmare" : Mars in science fiction, 1880-1913; title: Lichens on Mars : planetary science and the limits of knowledge; title: Mars at the limits of imagination : the dying planet from Burroughs to  Dick; title: The missions to Mars : Mariner, Viking, and the reinvention of a world; title: Transforming Mars, transforming humankind : science fiction in the space age; title: Mars at the turn of a new century; title: Falling into theory : terraformation and eco-economics in Kim Stanley; title: Robinson's Martian trilogy.