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Third volume in a trilogy describing the terraforming of Mars and the growth of societies there. Sequel to 1992 Robinson, Red Mars and 1994 Robinson, Green Mars. This volume describes the terraformed Mars, the continuing conflicts over what should be done to change Mars, and the eutopian society that develops there contrasted with the dystopia that Earth has become. The eutopian is one in which a variety of societies coexist peacefully with an emphasis on community. A story set further into the future of Mars is his “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction. 23.10 (285) (October/November 1999): 14-28; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 434-47 with an editor’s note on 433. Materials related to the trilogy were published as The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999, which reprints his “Exploring Fossil Canyon.” Universe 12. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 26-47; Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9.9 (September 1985): 112-82; “Sexual Dimorphism.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.6 (281) (June 1999): 28-39; rpt. in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 339-352; and “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[/11] (285) (October-November 1999): 14-28. In addition, The Martians includes poems “Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars rpt. in his Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 125-143 [“Crossing Mather Pass” (311-11/127-28), “Invisible Owls” (315-16/129-30), “Tenzing” (317-19/131-33), “The Red’s Lament” (322-323/135-136), “A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy” (320-21/137-39)], and “Two Years” (324/27/141-43), and the story “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” (179-88/171-79); rpt. in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 109-117; and in Stan’s Kitchen (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020, 171-179. “Discovering Life” was first published in Collector’s Edition: Five Brand New Short Stories From Voyager Authors (London: Voyager, 2000), 9-. [Held only by the University of Sydney]. It is rpt. in The Martians (New York: Bantam Books, 2000), 121-130. [Not in New York: Bantam Book, 1999, London: HarperCollins, 1999, or London: HarperCollins, 2000]; in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 353-360; Life On Mars: Tales From New Frontiers. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Viking 2011), 321-333, with a note on the author on 332 and an author’s note on 333; and Stan’s Kitchen (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020, 145-152.

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U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1997. Rpt. illus. Ron Miller with an “Introduction” by James Gunn (v-viii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996.

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A story set further into the future of Mars is his “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction. 23.10 (285) (October/November 1999): 14-28; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 434-47 with an editor’s note on 433. Materials related to the trilogy were published as The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999, which reprints his “Exploring Fossil Canyon.” Universe 12. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 26-47; Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9.9 (September 1985): 112-82; “Sexual Dimorphism.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.6 (281) (June 1999): 28-39; rpt. in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 339-352; and “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[/11] (285) (October-November 1999): 14-28. In addition, The Martians includes poems “Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars rpt. in his Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 125-143 [“Crossing Mather Pass” (311-11/127-28), “Invisible Owls” (315-16/129-30), “Tenzing” (317-19/131-33), “The Red’s Lament” (322-323/135-136), “A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy” (320-21/137-39)], and “Two Years” (324/27/141-43), and the story “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” (179-88/171-79); rpt. in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 109-117; and in Stan’s Kitchen (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020, 171-179. “Discovering Life” was first published in Collector’s Edition: Five Brand New Short Stories From Voyager Authors (London: Voyager, 2000), 9-. [Held only by the University of Sydney]. It is rpt. in The Martians (New York: Bantam Books, 2000), 121-130. [Not in New York: Bantam Book, 1999, London: HarperCollins, 1999, or London: HarperCollins, 2000]; in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 353-360; Life On Mars: Tales From New Frontiers. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Viking 2011), 321-333, with a note on the author on 332 and an author’s note on 333; and Stan’s Kitchen (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020, 145-152.

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