“The Martian Obelisk”

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Title“The Martian Obelisk”
Year for Search2017
AuthorsNagata, Linda(b. 1960)
Secondary TitleTor.com
PaginationEJournal
Date PublishedJuly 19, 2017
ISBN Number978-1-250-16463-6, 978-1-78108-573-8, 978-1-60701-5260
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

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. 
Additional Publishers

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. 
URLhttps://www.tor.com/2017/07/19/the-martian-obelisk/
Illustration

Illus. Victor Mosquera
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Female author
Full Text

2017 Nagata, Linda (b. 1960). “The Martian Obelisk.” Illus. Victor Mosquera. Tor.com (July 19, 2017). https://www.tor.com/2017/07/19/the-martian-obelisk/ 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), 44-72; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 444-57. PSt

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. Female author.