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| | Mars |
 | | Mars in the Mind of Earth; links to Mars related fiction | | | (An interesting side note: the Roman god Mars was a god of agriculture before becoming associated with the Greek Ares; those in favor of colonizing and terraforming Mars may prefer this symbolism.) The name of the month March derives from Mars. | | | Like Mercury and the Moon, Mars appears to lack active plate tectonics at present; there is no evidence of recent horizontal motion of the surface such as the folded mountains so common on Earth. |
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http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html
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| | Printed Matter -- Kim Stanley Robinson -- Page |
| | He's putting together a companion volume called "A Martian Romance," which collects fiction and non-fiction, short stories and essays about Mars and about his experiences writing the trilogy. | | | He has supported himself as a writer for the past decade and in the process established a reputation for not only being a good writer but making sure good, believable science was part of his science fiction. | | | What amazes many people is that Robinson, who has no formal science background at all, undertook the commitment of making science in the Mars trilogy as accurate as possible. |
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http://test.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/col21.html
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| | CBC News - Indepth: Space: Mars |
| | In the 19th century, astronomer Percival Lowell thought he saw canals on Mars; his observations triggered a flood of novels and science fiction stories about strange and wonderful beings thought to inhabit the Red Planet. | | | The question of life on Mars made headlines in the summer of 1996 when scientists announced that a meteorite recovered in Antarctica, thought to have been blasted off the surface of Mars, contained unusual features – tiny irregular grooves that could be interpreted as the fossilized remains of bacterial life. | | | Mars is at its brightest when it's at "opposition" – that is, when it's located opposite from the sun in our sky. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/space/mars_index.html
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| | Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson |
| | trilogy, Robinson has created what might be one of the grandest literary science fiction epics to date. | | | Since then he has averaged slightly less than a book a year (not counting short story collections), and nearly every one has defined its own niche in the science fiction genre. | | | "We could have been on Mars in 1986, as Stephen Baxter shows in his new book |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/interview.html
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| | Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Advisory Board |
| | Greg Bear is the best-selling author of more than 30 books of science fiction and fantasy, including Forge of God, Anvil of Stars, Moving Mars, and Darwin's Radio. | | | Robinson has won almost every science fiction award possible for both his novels and short stories. | | | He has been awarded two Hugos and five Nebulas for his fictionone of only two authors to win a Nebula in every categoryand has been called the "best working writer of hard science fiction" by The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. |
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http://www.sfhomeworld.org/about/board.asp
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| | Mars-God of War |
| | Well before modern science fiction speculated about advanced civilizations upon Mars and the dire threat of invasion by little green men, the red planet was regarded as a malevolent agent of war, pestilence, and apocalyptic disaster. | | | Mars soon evolved into a god of war, with many of his agricultural duties turned over to Ceres and Liber, although every May 29th festivals of the Ambarvalia celebrated him as an agricultural god, with a pig, ram and bull sacrificed to him. | | | arthlings have long been fascinated by the planet Mars. |
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http://www.stthomasschool.org/LPCal/marswar.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) |
| | This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and human characters in recent science fiction. | | | While "Red Mars" is certainly vast in scope and largely interesting from a scientific standpoint, the overall story suffers from underdeveloped characters, an overemphasis on Martian landscape, and no cohesive plot. | | | Posing more problems than answers, Red Mars leaves the reader uneasy about humanity's progress, with a mix of optimism about what we can do, and pessimism for what we are likely to do; it portrays characters the reader can feel for, and a planet to fall in love with. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553560735?v=glance
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| | A Princess of Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A Princess of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the first of his famous Barsoom series. | | | Though considered science fiction at the time of its publication, A Princess of Mars, due to its inaccuracies in astronomical information (such as, the atmosphere of Mars actually being able to sustain human life), is today regarded more as pure fantasy. | | | Though later published in book form, the story was first published in serial form as "Under the Moons of Mars" in All-Story in 1912. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars
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| | Martians |
| | The book also contains some non-fiction sections describing the scientific and political background of the Martian trilogy, as well as thirty pages of poetry, and a brief concluding section entitled Purple Mars which chronicles the author's satisfaction when the entire trilogy was finally printed out and mailed to his publisher. | | | We meet many of the important characters in the trilogy, and learn a bit more about them away from the plot machinations of Mars itself. | | | However, the Roger and Eileen trilogy and baseball story are all excellent stand-alones, so even those unfamiliar with the Mars Trilogy should enjoy them enough to get their money's worth out of the paperback edition. |
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http://www.users.nac.net/bobsabella/Martians.htm
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| | SciFan: Mars in Science Fiction Bibliography |
| | Subtitled "A novel of what might have been", this book explores what might have happened if NASA had continued on its way to Mars after the moon landing of 1969. | | | As far as novels about Mars go, this one has it all: political intrigue, romance (in a modern vein), history, philosophy, adventure and alien artifacts. | | | A hard science fiction novel which is at once deeply moving and scientifically accurate. |
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http://scifan.com/themes/mars/marsbiblio.asp
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| | Moving Mars |
| | Long, epic in sweep, and scrupulous in its details regarding the nature of Mars and the difficulties in settling the planet. | | | "Greg Bear's Moving Mars dramatizes life in a young society struggling against both a powerful Earth and the rigors of its own inhospitable world. | | | Greg Bear, author of over 25 books which have been translated into 17 languages, has won science fiction's highest honors and is considered the natural heir to Arthur C. Clarke. |
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http://www.ereads.com/book.asp?bookid=313
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| | Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. |
| | With his opening trilogy - considered one of the landmarks of science fiction- Burroughs created a vast and sweeping epic. | | | Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. | | | When the Viking landers touched down on Mars in 1976 it was hoped they would find some signs of life. |
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http://www.tarzan.org/barsoom.html
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| | First Words |
| | First Words is being run by volunteers from New Mars, the Mars Society's online magazine featuring articles on Martian time and the ethics of terraforming, interviews with top Mars scientists and SF authors, book reviews and original fiction. | | | Robinson had this to say: I would never undercut my character John Boone [from the Mars Trilogy], whose first words on Mars were, if I remember right, "Well, here we are." I think that's about right. | | | Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author of the bestselling Discworld series |
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http://www.newmars.com/firstwords/famous.shtml
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| | Amazon.com: Green Mars (Mars Trilogy): Books: Kim Stanley Robinson |
| | Green Mars is essentially a collection of self-contained short stories, in the mode of Isaac Asimov's original Foundation series; Green Mars weaves fine threads through seven characters and 40 earth-years. | | | Kim Stanley Robinson's epic Mars trilogy proceeds with new characters and familiar ones. | | | The culture described in the book is sort of a utopian culture arising out of being separated from the rest of Earth society and the struggles of life on Mars. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553572393?v=glance
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| | Printed Matter -- AUTHOR NAME -- Page |
| | "Green Mars," published in 1994, won the Hugo Award and "Blue Mars," published in 1996, won the Hugo in September for the best science fiction novel of the year. | | | His next Mars book will be "A Martian Romance," which will go to the publisher this spring. | | | "This is my final work on Mars but in the years ahead if I have an idea for a short story I could write it and jam it into that collection in a subsequent edition. |
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http://test.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/1997/antarctica.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: BLUE MARS (Export Only) |
| | Kim Stanely Robinson's BLUE MARS is the third book in his epic Mars trilogy, and it follows well the grand scope of the first two books. | | | "Blue Mars" goes well beyond the terraforming of Mars; indeed, by the time we are half way through this novel humanity has established colonies of different sorts from the planet Mercury top the distant moon Miranda, with colony ships leaving the solar system for distant worlds. | | | Nonetheless, BLUE MARS is a masterwork of science fiction, and it deserved the Hugo Award. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0002254530?v=glance
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| | Moving Mars - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
| | Moving Mars is a science fiction novel written by Greg Bear (ISBN 0812524802). | | | The book starts off with a comparison of Mars to Earth, and continues into the story. | | | The politics in this book are interesting, dealing with the "Triple", the combined economy of Earth, the Moon, and Mars. |
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http://www.arikah.net/encyclopedia/Moving_Mars
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| | Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Mars trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars. | | | As the Mars trilogy draws to a close, in the mid 22nd Century, the metanational corporations are forced by a global catastrophe to concede more democratic powers to their workforces. | | | A great portion of Blue Mars is concerned with the effects of extreme longevity on its fictional protagonists, most of whom have lived over two hundred years as a result of repeated longevity treatments. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Mars
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| | Amazon.com: Moving Mars : A Novel: Books |
| | Enjoying "Moving Mars" will depend on a number of things, particularly your attitude about how a science fiction novel "ought" to be. | | | Indeed, it's about Mars, and how Earth is trying to keep the poor colonists under the heel of their boots, and since Mars is mostly divided up into factions of different families, Earth doesn't need to do all that much to keep the status quo going. | | | In this 1995 Nebula Award-winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars. |
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http://buybox.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812524802/ref=pd_luc_mri/104-0946222-2831908?v=glance&s=books&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER&st=*
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| | Random House Books The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson |
| | Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is one of science fiction's most honored series, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award, and both Green Mars and Blue Mars honored with the Hugo. | | | Among them are Michel, a French psychologist dazzled by the beauty around him; Maya, a woman whose ill-fated love affairs lead to her first voyage to Mars; and Roger, a tall Martian-born guide who lacks social skills but has the courage to survive on the planet's dangerous yet strangely compelling surface. | | | As the planet is transformed from an unexplored and forbidding terrain to a troubled image of a re-created Earth, we meet men and women who are bound together by their experiences on Mars and with each other. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780553898309.html
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| | ERBzine Mars: Barsoom Guide |
| | Femino's excellent presentation with many large images of Mars in fiction is featured at: | | | I must prepare for a Planetarium, in Milan, Italy, an evening about "Mars in science fiction". | | | James Spratt's Illustrated Adaptation of ERB's A Princess of Mars |
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http://www.johncolemanburroughs.com/mars
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| | Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Mars trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars. | | | After returning from Mars, he is a public hero, and uses his considerable influence to lobby for another mission to Mars, this time a colonization mission. | | | Red Mars won the BSFA Award in 1992 and the SFWA's Nebula Award in 1993. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Mars
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| | Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Mars trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars. | | | After returning from Mars, he is a public hero, and uses his considerable influence to lobby for another mission to Mars, this time a colonization mission. | | | Russell is a leader of the Green movement (a movement whose goal is to terraform Mars) and also a brilliant and creative scientist who suffers aphasia (likely Broca's aphasia) after suffering a stroke while being brutally tortured by government security forces in Green Mars. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mars
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| | Mars Trilogy Concordance - KSR Interview |
| | They were true science-fiction, and there'll be things in my books that will be proven wrong and superceded but it's really the spirit that counts. | | | All that work has beautiful stuff in it, even if their ideas of Mars were based on earlier science that might not have been quite right. | | | I realize that yours is probably the most technically correct description of what life on Mars would be, as opposed say to Robert Heinlein or certainly Ray Bradbury. |
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http://mars.deltos.com/interview.htm
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| | Jesus on Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jesus on Mars is a 1979 science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer set on Mars and involving an alien civilization. | | | However, unlike mainstream Christianity, this society views Jesus as a man and not as God (see Nicene Creed). | | | In the penultimate chapter, Orme wavers on his conversion and submission to this Martian Jesus. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_on_Mars
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| | Articles - Podkayne of Mars |
| | Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein published in 1963, about a teenage girl named Podkayne and her little brother, an antisocial genius, who leave their home on Mars to take a trip on a spaceliner to see Venus and Earth, accompanied by their uncle. | | | Podkayne of Mars starts out as an innocent and somewhat dull story; she is, after all, on a luxury cruise. | | | Podkayne, fleeing the area to be destroyed by the bomb, realizes that a semi-intelligent Venerian "fairy" has been left behind, and returns to rescue it, giving her life in the process. |
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http://www.winacea.com/articles/Podkayne_of_Mars
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| | Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Mars trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars. | | | Blue Mars takes its title from the stage of terraforming that has taken place allowing atmospheric pressure and temperature to increase so that liquid water can exist on the planet's surface, forming rivers and seas. | | | A great portion of Blue Mars is concerned with the effects of extreme longevity on its fictional protagonists, most of whom have lived over two hundred years as a result of repeated longevity treatments. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mars
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http://www.bookfever.com/Book_Inventory/17481.html
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| | Blue Mars |
| | This is how a modern science fiction writer depicts a time in the future, where mankind has terraformed Mars into a planet with atmosphere and water and oceans suited for human beings. | | | New evidence shows, that there is likely to be water on Mars now, in the form of ice, and earlier, maybe only a few million of years ago, as liquid water. | | | Mars would be perfect for such a validation as it is much different from Earth, and at the same time realistic as a water planet |
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http://www.dhisoftware.com/general/News/front_news/BlueMars.htm
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