Fifteen all-new stories by science fictionтАЩs top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award winning editor Gardner Dozois
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BurroughsтАЩs A Princess of Mars. BradburyтАЩs The Martian Chronicles. HeinleinтАЩs Red Planet. These and so many more inspired generations of readers with a sense that science fictionтАЩs 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 ownтАФa red planet that burned like an ember in our night sky . . . and in our imaginations.
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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 civilizationsтАФby 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.
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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.
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FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY
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James S. A. Corey тАв Phyllis Eisenstein тАв Matthew Hughes тАв Joe R. Lansdale тАв David D. Levine тАв Ian McDonald тАв Michael Moorcock тАв Mike Resnick тАв Chris Roberson тАв Mary Rosenblum тАв Melinda Snodgrass тАв Allen M. Steele тАв S. M. Stirling тАв Howard Waldrop тАв Liz Williams
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And an Introduction by George R. R. Martin!
Praise for Old Mars
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тАЬStrong, fun and evocative.тАЭтАФTordotcom
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тАЬA fantastic anthology . . . Pulp magic lives in these pages.тАЭтАФBookhound
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