Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet
Mike Ashley
Oct 2018 · University of Chicago Press
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A "thoroughly enjoyable" collection of stories imagining the Red Planet during the golden age of science fiction, from an award-winning anthologist ( Kirkus Reviews).
An antique-shop owner gets a glimpse of the Red Planet through an intriguing artifact. A Martian's wife contemplates the possibility of life on Earth. A resident of Venus describes his travels across the two alien planets. From an arid desert to an advanced society far superior to Earth's, portrayals of Mars have differed radically in their attempts to uncover the truth about our neighboring planet.
Since the 1880s, after an astronomer described "channels" on its surface, writers have speculated endlessly on what life on Mars might look like and what might happen should we make contact with its inhabitants. This collection offers ten wildly imaginative stories by famed authors like H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, and J.G. Ballard as well as hard-to-find selections by unjustly forgotten writers of the genre. Introduced by acclaimed anthologist Mike Ashley, they vividly evoke a time when notions of life on other planets—from vegetation and water to space invaders and utopian societies—were new and startling. As we continue to imagine landing people on Mars, these stories represent gripping and vivid dispatches from futurists past.
"[A] superlative set of stories. . . . Vibrant and powerful." — Locus
"These stories are of the highest quality and illustrate how our evolving understanding of the Red Planet changed the way we wrote about it and how Mars came to occupy a prominent position in our hopes, dreams, and fears as the modern age dawned and grew." — Booklist
An antique-shop owner gets a glimpse of the Red Planet through an intriguing artifact. A Martian's wife contemplates the possibility of life on Earth. A resident of Venus describes his travels across the two alien planets. From an arid desert to an advanced society far superior to Earth's, portrayals of Mars have differed radically in their attempts to uncover the truth about our neighboring planet.
Since the 1880s, after an astronomer described "channels" on its surface, writers have speculated endlessly on what life on Mars might look like and what might happen should we make contact with its inhabitants. This collection offers ten wildly imaginative stories by famed authors like H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, and J.G. Ballard as well as hard-to-find selections by unjustly forgotten writers of the genre. Introduced by acclaimed anthologist Mike Ashley, they vividly evoke a time when notions of life on other planets—from vegetation and water to space invaders and utopian societies—were new and startling. As we continue to imagine landing people on Mars, these stories represent gripping and vivid dispatches from futurists past.
"[A] superlative set of stories. . . . Vibrant and powerful." — Locus
"These stories are of the highest quality and illustrate how our evolving understanding of the Red Planet changed the way we wrote about it and how Mars came to occupy a prominent position in our hopes, dreams, and fears as the modern age dawned and grew." — Booklist
A "thoroughly enjoyable" collection of stories imagining the Red Planet during the golden age of science fiction, from an award-winning anthologist ( Kirkus Reviews).
An antique-shop owner gets a glimpse of the Red Planet through an intriguing artifact. A Martian's wife contemplates the possibil...
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About the author
Mike Ashley is a leading historian of sci-fi magazines. He is the author of Out of this World: Science Fiction But Not as You Know It, and of the Edgar Award–winning The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction. He has also served as an editor for numerous encyclopedia works of genre fiction.
Mike Ashley is a leading historian of sci-fi magazines. He is the author of Out of this World: Science Fiction But Not as You Know It, and of the Edgar Award–winning The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction. He has also served as an editor for numerous encyclopedia works of genre fiction.
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