The story is set in a future devastated by climate change, pandemics, wars, and all the other problems brought about by human mistreatment of Earth. But it focuses on a project on Mars started after all the colonization attempts appear to have failed.
}, year = {2017}, journal = {Tor.com}, pages = {EJournal}, month = {07/2017}, isbn = {978-1-250-16463-6, 978-1-78108-573-8, 978-1-60701-5260}, url = {https://www.tor.com/2017/07/19/the-martian-obelisk/ }, note = {Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 71-83 with an editor’s note on 71; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 55-72; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 444-57.
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