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Author Title Publisher Year Published Notes
Bear, Greg. Moving Mars. New York: Tor 1993 1st US edition. 448 pgs. Nebula award winner.
Bear, Greg. Moving Mars. London: St. Martins 1993 1st UK edition. Nebula award winner.
Bear, Greg. Moving Mars. New York: Tor 1994 1st paperback edition. TOR 52480. Nebula award winner.
Bear, Greg. Moving Mars. London: Legend 1994 1st UK paperback edition. Nebula award winner.
Bear, Greg. introduction by George Zebrowski. Moving Mars. CT: Easton Press 2001 Limited edition. Frontis. by Marc Fishman. Nebula award winner.
Cobb, Weldon. At War with Mars, or the Boys Who Won. New York: Street and Smith 1907 1st edition. Brave and Bold Weekly no. 256. 32 p. An Edisonade. Serialized as The Boys Who Won in Gold Hours, 1897. (May be just one installment) .
Heinlein, Robert A. Between Planets. New York: Scribner's Sons 1951 1st edition, hardcover. Illustrated by Clifford Geary. Reprinted several times by Scribners.
Heinlein, Robert A. Between Planets. New York: Ace 1951 1st paperback edition. Cover art by Steele Savage.
Heinlein, Robert A. Between Planets. London: New English Library 1971 UK paperback. Cover art by Gordon C. Davies.
Heinlein, Robert A. Between Planets. New York: Ballantine / Del Rey 1978 Paperback edition. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet.
Heinlein, Robert A. Between Planets. London: Robert Hale 2002 UK hardcover.
Heinlein, Robert A. Zwischen den Planeten (Between the Planets). Berlin: Gebrüder Weiss Verlag 1960? 1st German hardcover.
Heinlein, Robert A. Zwischen den Planeten (Between the Planets). München: Heyne 1982 German paperback edition.
Holland, Cecelia Floating Worlds. New York: Knopf 1976 1st edition. 465 pgs. A mediator from Earth negotiates peace in an unconventional way between Humans and an alien race that is raiding Mars.
Lasswitz, Kurd. Auf zwei Planeten. (Two Planets). Leipzig: Verlag B. Elischer Nachfolger 1897 1st edition, hardcover. 545 p. Published in two volumes. Perhaps the most famous German novel about Mars. All subsequent editions of this work appear to be abridged.
Lasswitz, Kurd. Abridged by Erich Lasswitz. Auf Zwei Planeten (Two Planets). Donauwurth: Verlag Cassianeum 1948 Hardcover. Reprint of an 1897 work. 326 p. Perhaps the most famous German novel about Mars.
Lasswitz, Kurd. Abridged by Erich Lasswitz; ed. by Bruckhardt Kiegland and Martin Molitor. Auf Zwei Planeten (Two Planets). Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Heinrich Scheffler 1969 Pperback? . Reprint of an 1897 work. 350 p. Perhaps the most famous German novel about Mars.
Lasswitz, Kurd. Abridged by Erich Lasswitz. Translated by Hans Rudnick. Epigraph by Werner von Braun. Two Planets (Auf Zwei Planeten). Carbondale IL: Southern Illinois University Press 1971 1st US edition, hardcover. 405 pgs. Perhaps the most famous German novel about Mars.
Lasswitz, Kurd. Abridged by Erich Lasswitz, translated by Hans Rudnick. Afterword by Mark R. Hillegas. Two Planets (Auf Zwei Planeten). New York: Popular Library 1972 Paperback. 383 pgs. Perhaps the most famous German novel about Mars. A paperback versionof the Southern Illinois Univ. Press edition.
Moffitt, Donald. A Gathering of Stars. New York: Del Rey 1990 1st edition. 281 pgs. Part two of The Mechanical Sky series. A sequel to Crescent in the Sky. The Sultan of Alpha Centauri finds a way to challenge the Emir of Mars for the leadership of the Islamic worlds.
Sarrantonio, Al Exile: Five Worlds #1 New York: ROC 1996 1st edition, paperback. 317 p. A Martian despot begins an Interplantary war.
Sarrantonio, Al Journey: Five Worlds #2 New York: ROC 1997 1st edition, paperback. 317 p. The conquests of the Martian despot continue, until he comes up against a dictaor on the Saturn moons as vicious as he is, whiel the exiled king of Earth hides on Pluto.
Sarrantonio, Al Return: Five Worlds #3 New York: ROC 1998 1st edition, paperback. 317 p. The Martian despot takes over the moons of Saturn, and he and the ex-Earth King have a showdown on Venus.
Serviss, Garrett P. Edison's Conquest of Mars. Los Angeles: Carcosa House 1947 1st edition, hardcover. Originally serialized in the New York Evening Journal, January - February 1898. A sequel to a War of the Worlds rip-off, not the war of the Worlds proper. The forces of Earth mobilize to invade Mars after a bacteria killed off the Martian invaders. A great deal of fighting ensues, until Mars is flooded and their civilization wrecked. We find out mars has visited the earth in the past, and that there are asteroids of pure gold in space.
Serviss, Garrett P. Invasion of Mars. Reseda, CA: Powell Publications 1969 Paperback reprint. Originally serialized in the New York Evening Journal, January - February 1898. Includes an abridged version of War of the Worlds by Forrest J. Ackerman. Despite the fact this edition says it is a sequel to War of the Worlds, it is not. A sequel to a War of the Worlds rip-off, not the war of the Worlds proper. The forces of Earth mobilize to invade Mars after a bacteria killed off the Martian invaders. A great deal of fighting ensues, until Mars is flooded and their civilization wrecked. We find out mars has visited the earth in the past, and that there are asteroids of pure gold in space.
Shatner, William. Law of War. New York: Putnam 1998 1st edition, hardcover. Sequel to Man O' War. The hero of the first novel is now prime minister, as Earth starts a war for revenge.
Shatner, William. Law of War. New York: Ace 2001 1st paperback edition. 274 p. Sequel to Man O' War. The hero of the first novel is now prime minister, as Earth starts a war for revenge.
Winsor, G. McLeod. Station X. London: Jenkins 1919 1st edition, hardcover. Author's first novel. Earthlings and Venusians fight off a psychic Martian invasion. Here, the real evil-doers are actually from the Moon, but took over the Martians psychically eons before.
Winsor, G. McLeod. Station X. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1919 1st US edition, hardcover. Author's first novel. Earthlings and Venusians fight off a psychic Martian invasion. Here, the real evil-doers are actually from the Moon, but took over the Martians psychically eons before.
Winsor, G. McLeod. introduction by Richard Gid Powers. Station X. Boston: Gregg Press 1975 Hardcover. Reprint of 1910 novel. Author's first novel. Earthlings and Venusians fight off a psychic Martian invasion. Here, the real evil-doers are actually from the Moon, but took over the Martians psychically eons before.

 

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