Red Mars

The first volume of a trilogy focusing on the colonization of Mars with conflicts over what the future of Mars should be playing out both on Mars and on Earth. See also 1993 Robinson, Green Mars and 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; “Green Mars.” 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” (322/23/135-136), “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.

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; “Green Mars.” 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” (322/23/135-136), “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.

(b. 1952)