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http://booksonmars.blogspot.com/ - Launched in Rocket Summer 2007, my blog is about Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars. It covers classic works, new releases, short fiction, audiobooks, cover art, e-books, graphic novels, comics, poetry, music, films, awards, and NASA .
Award-winning British SF&F; author Neil Gaiman revealed in a recent entry in his online journal that he liked the BBC’s Doctor Who television special “The Waters of Mars,” which aired in the UK last Sunday evening, November 15th:“Maddy and I watched the antepenultimate Doctor Who special, The ...
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Doctor Who
David Tennant
The free SF story site 365 tomorrows has a new piece of flash fiction titled “Eagle 2” (2009), by Al Vazquez. It’s about the first human landing on Mars. Here's the opening line: “The retro-rockets jolted the ship as it began its decent into the thin, cold atmosphere.”
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Martian Chronicles
Doctor Who
Lost
Ian Mcdonald
The War of the Worlds
Thanks to the generosity of Canadian blogger, copyright activist and science fiction author Cory Doctorow, you can listen to a podcast (MP3, 7:30 min.) of a piece of Martian Chronicles, a new Young Adult short story that he is writing for Australian editor Jonathan Strahan's forthcoming YA Mars ...
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Martian Chronicles
Life on Mars
Class is in session over at DePauw University’s Science Fiction Studies, #109, Volume 36, Part 3, November 2009, where Brian Attebery of Idaho State University argues that the works of science fiction & fantasy author Edgar Pangborn seem “to be grounded in a queer perspective.” According to ...
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James Maliszewski of Escapist Magazine just wrote a neat article entitled “The Books That Founded D&D;,” which explores the books that inspired Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax to create the world's first tabletop, role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, back in the early 1970s. Among the books: Edgar ...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Earlier in the week, NASA and Microsoft launched a new website called “Be a Martian! Part education and part fun, it is an attempt by the space agency to enlist the public in the study and mapping of the Red Planet. “There's so much data coming back from Mars. Having a wider crowd look at the ...
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Wonder of the Worlds (2005), a novel written by Sesh Heri, is a scientific adventure in which secret agent Harry Houdini journeys to the Red Planet with scientist Nikola Tesla and author Mark Twain to retrieve a crystal stolen by Martian agents from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in ...
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Mark Twain
Harry Harrison
Jules Verne
The website Mexican Memorabilia has a slew of Mexican and Latin American magazine covers and other collectibles from the 1930's and 1940's depicting the famous Hollywood child actress Shirley Temple. One of the items: a sci-fi pulp titled Un Viaje a Marte (1937), by J. H. Rosny.
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Martian Chronicles
Doctor Who
Lost
Ian Mcdonald
The War of the Worlds
Martian Rails, the new board game made by Mayfair Games about railroading on the Red Planet in which players build tracks and haul freight, has a long list of interesting cities that players can utilize to generate revenue for their rail companies. For example:Ares University - A small ...
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I just found a neat old book review of Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance (1893), a feminist science fiction and utopian Mars novel. Initially attributed to “Two Women of the West,” the novel was actually written by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Here’s the entire ...
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A creative fan over on YouTube has painstakingly compiled a four-minute video montage entitled “All the Deaths in Total Recall (including Johnny Cab).” In short, it shows all the deaths (human, animal, robot) from the Mars film Total Recall (1990), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone ...
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Total Recall
1984
Philip K. Dick
Thanks to a recent blog post by File 770, Mike Glyer's fanzine about the news of sf fandom, I learned that Martian science fiction author Leigh Brackett owned a 1964 Corvette. If anyone has a photo of Brackett and her Corvette, please consider sharing with the rest of us. Thanks!
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The BBC’s highly anticipated Doctor Who television special “The Waters of Mars” hit the small screen last evening in the United Kingdom. More than 9 million viewers tuned in to watch the Doctor, British actor David Tennant, and his companion, Scottish actress Lindsay Duncan, confront Zombies at ...
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Doctor Who
David Tennant
Dressed in a Gunner Cade shirt, blogger, copyright activist and SF author Cory Doctorow launched his latest novel, Makers (Tor 2009), this past weekend from the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy at the Toronto Public Library. As shown in a photograph posted on ...
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Although it is only November 15th, Joi Weaver and Tresa Cho, two twenty-something women writers and science fiction fans, are on course in penning their respective Mars novels for National Novel Writing Month 2009.Joi’s untitled novel, which is set in the year 2052 and stars a woman named Dejah ...
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A few months ago, Crossed Genres, the online magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy with a twist, published a short story entitled “Red Dust” (2009), by Amanda Lord. Essentially a SF Western set on Mars, “Red Dust” revolves around an AI named Lewis. Here are the opening lines:Call me Lewis. I ...
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Amanda Tapping
Late last evening, the Authors Guild and its allies (Association of American Publishers, Google) filed a revised edition of the proposed $125 million Google Books Settlement, which is being dubbed Settlement 2.0. While the Authors Guild trumpeted the revised agreement and posted details of the ...
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The Guild
Foundation
Essentially the work of popular Italian satirist Corrado Guzzanti, Fascisti su Marte (Fascists on Mars) imagines a 1939 expedition to Mars in which a group of followers of Benito Mussolini attempt to turn the Red Planet to Fascist black. Originally developed in 2002 as a skit for Italian ...
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There’s a riveting seven-minute video over on YouTube that shows some of the geeks at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, printing a copy of Percival Lowell’s infamous scientific study, Mars and Its Canals (1906), compliments of the bookstore’s new print-on-demand Espresso Book ...
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Pulp science fiction author Joel Jenkins revealed recently on his blog that he is entrenched in writing Lost Tribes of the Dire Planet, the fourth novel in his Dire Planet series. Inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard, this sword & planet collection chronicles hero Garvey Dire ...
