Fourth Planet From The Sun

by Van Gelder, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9781560256663
• ISBN10: 1560256664
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-23
• Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub

Summary

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..

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
The Wilderness	1	(12)
Ray Bradbury
Mars Is Ours	13	(14)
Alfred Coppel
Crime on Mars	27	(8)
Arthur C. Clarke
Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon	35	(22)
Leigh Brackett
A Rose for Ecclesiastes	57	(44)
Roger Zelazny
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale	101	(26)
Philip K. Dick
Hellas Is Florida	127	(22)
Gordon Eklund
Gregory Benford
In the Hall of the Martian Kings	149	(50)
John Varley
The First Mars Mission	199	(14)
Robert F. Young
The Last Mars Trip	213	(20)
Michael Cassutt
The Great Martian Pyramid Hoax	233	(18)
Jerry Oltion
Pictures from an Expedition	251
Alex Irvine