FOURTH PLANET FROM THE SUN
Tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Edited by Gordon Van Gelder
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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| Table of Contents | | | | |
| The Wilderness | – | Ray Bradbury |
| Mars Is Ours | – | Alfred Coppel |
| Crime on Mars | – | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon | – | Leigh Brackett |
| A Rose for Ecclesiastes | – | Roger Zelazny |
| We Can Remember It For You Wholesale | – | Philip K. Dick |
| Hellas is Florida | – | Gordon Eklund & Gregory Benford |
| In the Hall of the Martian Kings | – | John Varley |
| The First Mars Mission | – | Robert F. Young |
| The Last Mars Trip | – | Michael Cassutt |
| The Great Martian Pyramid Hoax | – | Jerry Oltion |
| Pictures from an Expedition | – | Alex Irvine |
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