Old Mars

ISBN: 0345537270

Author: Martin, George R. R.

Condition: New

Fifteen all-new stories by science fictions top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award winning editor Gardner DozoisBurroughss A Princess of Mars. Bradburys The Martian Chronicles. Heinleins Red Planet. These and so many more inspired generations of readers with a sense that science fictions greatest wonders did not necessarily lie far in the future or light-years across the galaxy but were to be found right now on a nearby world tantalizingly similar to our own-a red planet that burned like an ember in our night sky . . . and in our imaginations.This new anthology of fifteen all-original science fiction stories, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, celebrates the Golden Age of Science Fiction, an era filled with tales of interplanetary colonization and derring-do. Before the advent of powerful telescopes and space probes, our solar system could be imagined as teeming with strange life-forms and ancient civilizations-by no means always friendly to the dominant species of Earth. And of all the planets orbiting that G-class star we call the Sun, none was so steeped in an aura of romantic decadence, thrilling mystery, and gung-ho adventure as Mars.Join such seminal contributors as Michael Moorcock, Mike Resnick, Joe R. Lansdale, S. M. Stirling, Mary Rosenblum, Ian McDonald, Liz Williams, James S. A. Corey, and others in this brilliant retro anthology that turns its back on the cold, all-but-airless Mars of the Mariner probes and instead embraces an older, more welcoming, more exotic Mars: a planet of ancient canals cutting through red deserts studded with the ruined cities of dying races.FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BYJames S. A. Corey Phyllis Eisenstein Matthew Hughes Joe R. Lansdale David D. Levine Ian McDonald Michael Moorcock Mike Resnick Chris Roberson Mary Rosenblum Melinda Snodgrass Allen M. Steele S. M. Stirling Howard Waldrop Liz WilliamsAnd an Introduction by George R. R. Martin!Praise for Old MarsStrong, fun and evocative.-TordotcomA fantastic anthology . . . Pulp magic lives in these pages.-Bookhound