"Book Review - Old Mars " Topic
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Tango01 | 21 Dec 2015 3:41 p.m. PST |
"'Fifteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award winning editor Gardner Dozois Burroughs's A Princess of Mars. Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Heinlein's Red Planet. These and so many more inspired generations of readers with a sense that science fiction's 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 own—a red planet that burned like an ember in our night sky . . . and in our imaginations. 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 civilizations—by 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…"
Full review here link Amicalement Armand |
boy wundyr x | 21 Dec 2015 5:18 p.m. PST |
The book is more new-ish than new – I've had it on a shelf for probably three years. |
Tango01 | 22 Dec 2015 10:36 a.m. PST |
It's good? Amicalement Armand |
boy wundyr x | 22 Dec 2015 12:53 p.m. PST |
It's still in my line-up, haven't gotten to it yet. It certainly looks cool. Chris |
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