Wells’s jaunty “The Crystal Egg” (1897), an antiques dealer’s artifact allows him to view the mysterious red planet and its winged citizens. The extensive introduction chronicles Mars as the subject of early influential stories by writers who used the red planet as an allegory for religion, evils of colonization, environmental disaster, and lack of resources. As we continue to imagine landing people on Mars, these stories are well worth revisiting as gripping and vivid dispatches from futurists past.Editor Ashley ( Out of This World) dusts off 10 enchanting stories of Mars by famous and forgotten British and American writers from the late 19th century to the 1960s for this nostalgic retrospective collection. Assembled and introduced by acclaimed anthologist Mike Ashley, these stories vividly evoke a time when notions of life on other planets-from vegetation and water to space invaders and utopian societies-were new and startling.
Ballard, as well as hard-to-find stories by unjustly forgotten writers from the genre. This wonderful collection offers ten wildly imaginative short stories from the golden age of science fiction by such classic sci-fi writers as H.G. Since the 1880s, after an astronomer first described “channels” on the surface of Mars, writers have been fascinated with the planet, endlessly speculating on what life on Mars might look like and what might happen should we make contact with the planet's inhabitants. From an arid desert to an advanced society far superior to that of Earth, portrayals of Mars have differed radically in their attempts to uncover the truth about our neighboring planet. A resident of Venus describes his travels across the two alien planets. A Martian’s wife contemplates the possibility of life on Earth. I approached with curiosity this oasis in the frozen desert.” An antique-shop owner gets a glimpse of the Red Planet through an intriguing artifact. “I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows.
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