Green Mars

1993 Robinson, Kim Stanley (b. 1952). Green Mars. London: HarperCollins. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1994. Based on a shorter piece of the same title in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9.9 (September 1985): 112-182; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 552-619 with an editor’s note on 551; and in The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999), 147-243. Chapter one was also published as “A Martian Childhood.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.2 (212) (February 1994): 128-74. Merril, PSt

Complex social science and science fiction about the terraforming of Mars and the growth of societies there. Mars is threatened by a dystopian Earth of corporate power and environmental degradation that hopes to exploit Mars’s resources rather than create healthy societies. Sequel to 1992 Robinson, Red Mars. See also 1996 Robinson, Blue Mars. 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; “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” (322/23/135-136), “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.