Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - Softcover

Van Gelder, Gordon

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9781560256663: Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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ISBN 10: 1560256664 ISBN 13: 9781560256663

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005

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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..

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Recent publicity about the 2004 Mars rover expeditions and the perdurable popularity of such novels as Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy seem to have made anything anent the fourth planet a hot commodity inside and outside of sf. Veteran sf editor Van Gelder seizes the day by collecting Martian tales from the pages of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reaching into the archives, he emerges with some of the genre flagship-journal's earliest and latest Mars-related stories, and he tracks the shifting views of the red planet that sf authors have had over the years. Ray Bradbury's "Wilderness" and Arthur C. Clarke's "Crime on Mars" reflect the early view of Mars as birthplace of an old civilization. Alfred Coppel's "Mars Is Ours" and John Varley's "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" capture the more modern view of Mars as a barren wasteland. Notably included is Philip K. Dick's classic "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," the basis of the film Total Recall. Mars fanatics won't be disappointed. Carl Hays
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