Kim Stanley Robinson recommends some Mars fiction
At IEEE Spectrum: "My 10 Favorite Mars Novels". [via SF Signal & Marooned]
It's actually 11 books - 8 novels, 2 short story collections, & 1 poetry book.
I've read only 2 from the lot:
- Arthur Clarke's "The Sands of Mars": First human cities on Mars, including an adventure involving a surface journey from one city to another, getting lost & rescued on the way, & picking up a native animal pet.
- Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles": I've read only part of it. A retelling of European colonization of Americas in a fantasy setting - read Europeans for humans & Martians for native Americans. In at least one story, "And the Moon be Still as Bright", author makes this connection explicit.
Later stories apparently deal with nuclear dystopia, but I haven't read most of them.
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nks for the linkage, Tinkoo!
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