Marooned - Science Fiction & Fantasy books on Mars

I've revamped my blog in hopes of providing a more enjoyable experience for all. A different template, larger images, simplified tags and more tools for sharing posts with others. The name of the...

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Congratulations to Terri L. of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who is the proud new owner of my slightly-used copy of the signed, limited edition, 750-page The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Editi...

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BBC’s acclaimed Doctor Who television special “The Waters of Mars” (2009), which attracted millions of viewers in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, just won the prestigio...

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If you're a fan of pulp author Edgar Rice Burroughs and his fictional red planet Barsoom, here are some recent links worth checking out. The science fiction blog io9 posted a fascinating four-par...

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Dear Editor:Gr-r-r, now I am mad! I do wish that people who want a regular instruction book of a magazine would kindly refrain from spending their valuable pennies on ours.And if Mr. Johnston of ...

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Martian Rails (2009), the crayon board game manufactured by Mayfair Games about railroading on the Red Planet in which players build tracks and haul freight, has a long list of events to which pl...

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Here’s another new short story written by award-winning British science fiction author Brian W. Aldiss. It’s titled “The First-Born” and it was published earlier this summer in Gateways (...

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Thanks to Canadian science fiction author and blogger Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing, I learned all about “10 Rules for Radicals” by rogue archivist Carl Malamud. Apparently, it’s “a must-r...

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Guess who?1. James Ashmore Creelman (1894-1941) Hollywood film writer whose credits include King Kong (1933) and The Journey to Mars (1936).2. Thomas Disch (1940-2008) Science fiction author and ...

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The Top 10 Marooned posts for August 2010:1. Gallery of b&w illustrations from Edison’s Conquest of Mars (1898, 1947)2. “They All Had Grandfathers” a previously unpublished Martian tale by ...

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Check out this Flickr gallery of cover art portraying Podkayne of Mars, the title character in Robert A. Heinlein’s classic 1963 juvenile novel. More than 25 pieces of beautiful artwork, includ...

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Late last month, ThisIsOxfordshire.com reported that award-winning British science fiction author and artist Brian W. Aldiss has written a new science fiction short story set on Mars. It’s call...

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Dark Horse Comics is collecting and reprinting the John Carter of Mars stories that were originally published in the 1970's comic books Weird Worlds #1-#7 and Tarzan #207-#209. The forthcoming vo...

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There’s a beautiful Graal glass vase by Swedish artist Eva Englund (1937-1998) for sale on eBay. Created in 1988, the piece is called "Marsmanniska" ("Martian"). It’s about 8 inches high and ...

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Jekkara Press, the home of The Adventures of Bulays & Ghaavn and The Gender Switch Adventures, has an interesting, free short story titled “Amazon Arena of Mars” (2010). Written by Tara Lough...

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Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert review Mars Attacks! (1996), director Tim Burton's science fiction spoof based on the 1962 Topps trading cards. Starring Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Anne...

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The Forge of Mars (2002), a hard science fiction novel by former NASA employee and writer Bruce Balfour.Paperback original (New York: Ace Books, 2002) $6.99. Cover art by Jean Pierre Targete. The...

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Martian Rails (2009), the crayon board game manufactured by Mayfair Games about railroading on the Red Planet in which players build tracks and haul freight, has a long list of cool commodities t...

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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Norton 2010), a new nonfiction book by the sexy popular science writer Mary Roach is currently resting at #8 on The New York Times hardc...

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Launched in Rocket Summer 2007, my blog is about Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars. It covers classic works, new releases, short fiction, audiobooks, cover art, e-books, graphic novels, comics, poetry, music, films, authors, awards, and NASA missions.

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Dragon’s Head Books of Portland, Oregon has an interesting copy of Robert A. Heinlein’s Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) for sale over at AbeBooks. I...

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Despite a board of directors that includes prominent (but aging) revolutionaries, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a San Francisco-based non-profit organization founded in 1990 that defe...

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Check out the detail on these two beautiful pieces of endpaper art that I raided from an early 1990’s Russian omnibus comprised of three of American science fiction author Leigh Brackett’s cl...

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Black Hole Sun, a new Young Adult science fiction novel written by American author David Macinnis Gill and published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of behemoth HarperCollins, is scheduled to be...

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A.V. Club (not to be confused with the Italian football club A.S. Roma) recently posted an interesting review of The Alternate Martians (1965), a paperback original penned by Australian science f...

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