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Novels About Mars and Martians Full List

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Author Title Publisher Year Published Notes
Kent, Philip (pseud. of Kenneth Bulmer). Home is the Martian. London: Pearson 1954 1st edition, paperback.
Key, Alexander Rivets and Sprockets. Philadelphia: Westminster 1964 1st edition, hardcover. 160 pgs. Illus. by the author.
Kline, Otis Adelbert. Outlaws of Mars. New York: Ace 1961 Paperback. 158 pgs. Ace paperback D-531. Originally serialized in the American magazine Argosy from November 1933 to January 1934. At the beginning of the book is a tribute of the author by Camille Cazedessus, Jr. editor of ERB-dom Magazine. The Swordsman of Mars.
Kline, Otis Adelbert. Outlaws of Mars. New York: Avalon 1961 1st edition, hardcover. 224 pgs. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller. Originally serialized in the American magazine Argosy from November 1933 to January 1934. Sequel to The Swordsman of Mars.
Kline, Otis Adelbert. The Swordsman of Mars. New York: Avalon 196o 1st edition, hardcover. 224 pgs. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller. Originally serialized in the American magazine Argosy from January to February 1933.
Kline, Otis Adelbert. The Swordsman of Mars. New York: Ace 196o Paperback. 174 p. Ace D-516. Originally serialized in the American magazine Argosy from January to February 1933.
Lanier, Sterling F. Menace Under Marswood. New York: Del Rey 1983 1st edition, paperback. 214 pgs.
Lanier, Sterling F. Menace Under Marswood. London: Grafton 1985 1st UK edition, paperback. 255 p.
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.
Leggett, Mortimer Dormer. A Dream of a Modest Prophet. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1890 1st edition, hardcover. 207 p. A dream trip to a Christian Utopia on Mars.
Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet. London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1938 1st edition, hardcover. First volume in the Ransom (or Cosmic ) Trilogy. The other two books published in 1943 and 1945 are Perelandra (later pub. as Voyage to Venus), and That Hideous Strength (later pub. as The Tortutured Planet).
Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet. New York: Macmillan 1943 1st US edition, hardcover. First volume in the Ransom (or Cosmic ) Trilogy. The other two books published in 1943 and 1945 are Perelandra (later pub. as Voyage to Venus), and That Hideous Strength (later pub. as The Tortutured Planet).
Lhin, Eric van (pseud. of Lester Del Rey) Police Your Planet. New York: Avalon Books 1956 1st edition, hardcover. 224 p.
Lihn, Eric van (pseud. of Lester Del Rey) Police Your Planet. New York: Ballantine 1975 1st paperback edition. 224 p. Illustrated by Jim Steranko.
Lihn, Eric van (pseud. of Lester Del Rey) Police Your Planet. London: New English Library 1978 1st UK edition, paperback. 190 p.
Ling, Mrs. H.H. (pseud. of Mary Anne Moore-Bentley) A Woman of Mars, or Australia’s Enfranchised Woman. Sydney: Edwards, Dunlop & Co. 1901 1st edition, hardcover. 262 p. Like other early Australian Science fiction, scarce.
Long, Frank Belknap. Mars is My Destination. New York: Pyramid Books 1962 1st edition. Pyramid paperback F-742. 158 pgs. June 1962. Cover by John Schoenherr.
Lydecken, Arvid. Tahtien Tarhoissa (Among the Stars). Finland. 1912 Need more information.
MacColl, Hugh. Mr Stranger's Sealed Packet. London: Chatto and Windus 1889 1st edition, hardcover. First mention of the death of a Martian througn Terran bacterial exposure.
MacColl, Hugh. Mr Stranger's Sealed Packet. New York: Munro 1890 1st edition, hardcover. First mention of the death of a Martian througn Terran bacterial exposure.
McCauley, Paul J. Red Dust. London: Gollancz 1993 1st edition, hardcover. 392 p. A man gets infected with a nanotech virus and goes to find how to release the trapped water on Mars, against the will of the current rulers.
McCauley, Paul J. Red Dust. New York: Morrow 1993 1st US hardcover edition. 392 p. A man gets infected with a nanotech virus and goes to find how to release the trapped water on Mars, against the will of the current rulers.
McDonald, Ian. Desolation Road. New York: Bantam 1988 1st U.S. edition, paperback. Author’s first novel. 355 pgs. Winner of 1989 Locus Award, best first novel. A unique Martian town leads the way to independence from corporate dominance.
McDonald, Ian. Desolation Road. London: Drunken Dragon 1990 1st UK hardcover edition. 1500 copies, signed. Winner of 1989 Locus Award, best first novel. Author’s first novel. 355 pgs. A unique Martian town leads the way to independence from corporate dominance.
McHugh, Maureen F. China Mountain Zhang. New York: TOR 1992 1st edition, hardcover. 313 p. Mostly about a Chinese dominated Earth, but two of the characters live on a commune on Mars.
McIntosh, J. T. (pesud. of james McGregor) One In Three Hundred. New York: Doubleday 1954 1st edition, hardcover. 223 p. Cover art by Mel Hunter. A cataclysmic novel of Martian colonization by a teemign earth.
McIntosh, J. T. (pesud. of james McGregor) One In Three Hundred. London: Museum Press Ltd. 1956 1st UK hardcover edition. 192 p. cover art by E. B. Mudge-Marriott. A cataclysmic novel of Martian colonization by a teeming earth.
Mitchell, John Ames. Drowsy. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1917 1st edition, hardcover. 301 p. Illustrated by Angus MacDonall and the author.
Moffett, Langston. The Conquest of Mars.

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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.
Moffitt, Donald. Crescent in the Sky. New York: Del Rey 1990 1st edition. 280 pgs. Part one of The Mechanical Sky series. Sequel is A Gathering of Stars. The Emir of Mars decides to visit Mecca and unite all the Islamic worlds, with a reluctant hero in tow. Better than it sounds.
Niven, Larry. Rainbow Mars. New York: TOR 1999 1st edition, hardcover. An ecological novel about a man who, traveling back and forth in time to retrive lost species, discovers Mars was inhabited, and that thier demise is being paralleled by earth.
Niven, Larry. Rainbow Mars. New York: TOR 2000 1st paperback edition. An ecological novel about a man who, traveling back and forth in time to retrive lost species, discovers Mars was inhabited, and that thier demise is being paralleled by earth.
North, Rick (pseud. of Margaret Wander Bonanno). Citizens of Mars. New York: Kensington 1991 1st edition. Part of the Young Astronauts series, book 6. Conflict in Martian colonies til a boy goes missing.
North, Rick (pseud. of Margaret Wander Bonanno). Destination Mars. New York: Kensington 1991 1st edition. Part of the Young Astronauts series, book 4. The young astronauts finally touch down on Mars.
North, Rick (pseud. of Margaret Wander Bonanno). Ready for Blastoff. New York: Kensington 1990 1st edition. Part of the Young Astronauts series, book 2. The young astronatus save a man on their way to Mars.
North, Rick (pseud. of Margaret Wander Bonanno). Space Pioneers. New York: Kensington 1991 1st edition. Part of the Young Astronauts series, book 5.
North, Rick (pseud. of Margaret Wander Bonanno). Young Astronauts. New York: Kensington 1990 1st edition. Part of the Young Astronauts series, book 1. The UN selects young astronauts to lead the colonization of Mars.
North, Rick (pseud. of Margaret Wander Bonanno). Young Blazers. New York: Kensington 1990 1st edition. Part of the Young Astronauts series, book 3.
Nourse, Alan E. Scavengers in Space. New York: Ace 1959 Paperback. Ace D-541. Sons of an asteroid miner from a Martian colony investigate his death.
Nourse, Alan E. Scavengers in Space. New York: David McKay 1959 1st edition, hardcover. Sons of an asteroid miner from a Martian colony investigate his death.
Pesek, Ludek. Die Erde is Nah: die Marsexpedition (The Earth Is Near). Recklinghausen: Georg Bitter 1970? 1st edition, hardcover. German. First published as Die Erde is Nah: die Marsexpedition, in 1970. Won a German children's book prize, but not a juvenile novel. An expedition travels to Mars and finds.... a desert. Good realistic depiction of Mars.
Pesek, Ludek. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell . The Earth Is Near. London: Longman Young Books 1973 1st UK hardcover. First published as Die Erde is Nah: die Marsexpedition, in 1970. Won a German children's book prize, but not a juvenile novel. An expedition travels to Mars and finds.... a desert. Good realistic depiction of Mars.
Pesek, Ludek. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell . The Earth Is Near. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press 1974 1st US hardcover. First published as Die Erde is Nah: die Marsexpedition, in 1970. Won a German children's book prize, but not a juvenile novel. An expedition travels to Mars and finds.... a desert. Good realistic depiction of Mars.
Petaja, Emil. The Caves of Mars. New York: Ace 1965 1st edition, paperback. 131 p. Ace Double M-133. Caves cover by Schomberg. Published with Chandler's Space Mercenaries. Mad doctors and zombie drugs from Mars.
Pike, Christopher. The Season of Passage. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1992 1st UK edition, hardcover. Vampires vs. a mars expedition. As much or more horror as SF.
Pike, Christopher. The Season of Passage. New York: TOR 1992 1st US edition, hardcover. Vampires vs. a mars expedition. As much or more horror as SF.
Pohl, Frederik. Man Plus. London: Gollancz 1976 1st UK edition, hardcover. Winner, 1976 Nebula for Best Novel. A human is genetically engineerd to live on Mars, as part of mankind's bid to save the species.
Pohl, Frederik. Man Plus. New York: Random House 1976 1st U. S. edition, hardcover. 215 pgs. Winner, 1976 Nebula for Best Novel. A human is genetically engineerd to live on Mars, as part of mankind's bid to save the species.
Pohl, Frederik. Man Plus. New York: Bantam 1977 Paperback. 246 pgs. Winner, 1976 Nebula for Best Novel. A human is genetically engineerd to live on Mars, as part of mankind's bid to save the species.
Pohl, Frederik. Mining the Oort. New York: Del Rey 1992 1st edition. 264 pgs. A young space miner seeking to terraform Mars with Oort cloud meteor strikes finds a conspiracy to send on of the huge objects to Earth.
Pohl, Frederik. The Day the Martians Came. New York: St. Martins 1988 1st edition, hardback. 248 p. A kind-of novel loosely tying together several of Pohl's Martian stories and 3 new ones, including: "A Martian Christmas" (1987), "Sad Screenwriter Sam" (1972), "The View From Mars Hill" (1987), "Saucery" (1986), "Too Much Loosestrife" (1987), "Iradeska's Martians" (1986), and "The Day After the Day After the Martians came" (1967). The stories "The Missioner", The Beltway bandit", and "Across the River" are original with this volume. More of a commentary on humans and what they do when they learn of an alien civilization.
Pohl, Frederik. The Day the Martians Came. New York: St, Martins 1989 Paperback. Anthology of Pohl's Mars stories. A kind-of novel loosely tying together several of Pohl's Martian stories and 3 new ones, including: "A Martian Christmas" (1987), "Sad Screenwriter Sam" (1972), "The View From Mars Hill" (1987), "Saucery" (1986), "Too Much Loosestrife" (1987), "Iradeska's Martians" (1986), and "The Day After the Day After the Martians came" (1967). The stories "The Missioner", The Beltway bandit", and "Across the River" are original with this volume. More of a commentary on humans and what they do when they learn of an alien civilization.
Pohl, Frederik and Thomas T. Thomas. Mars Plus. New York: Baen 1994 1st edition, hardcover. Sequel to Man Plus. A new engineered human finds that the program is being controlled by others for their own ends, and he must find a way to assert his humanity.
Pohl, Frederik and Thomas T. Thomas. Mars Plus. New York: Baen 1995 1st paperback edition. Sequel to Man Plus. A new engineered human finds that the program is being controlled by others for their own ends, and he must find a way to assert his humanity.
Pope, Gustavus W. Romances of the Planets, No. 1: Journey to Mars, the Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor: Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms: Its Final Doom. New York: Dillingham 1894 1st U.S. edition. hardcover. A shipwrecked sailor helps save a Martian in the Antarctic, and is transported back to Mars with the fellow and the rest of his compatriots. Later he helps the Martians start negotiating a colony to save their people from a meteor swarm.
Pope, Gustavus W. introduction by Sam Moskowitz. Romances of the Planets, No. 1: Journey to Mars, the Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor: Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms: Its Final Doom. Westport, CT: Hyperion 1974 A Reprint of the 1894 edition,Trade paperback. A shipwrecked sailor helps save a Martian in the Antarctic, and is transported back to Mars with the fellow and the rest of his compatriots. Later he helps the Martians start negotiating a colony to save their people from a meteor swarm.
Priest, Christopher. The Space Machine : a Scientific Romance. London: Faber and Faber 1976 1st UK edition, hardcover. A man and a woman are mystically transported to Mars before they launch the invasion in Wells' book. The story goes from there.
Priest, Christopher. The Space Machine : a Scientific Romance. New York: Harper Collins 1976 1st US hardcover edition. A man and a woman are mystically transported to Mars before they launch the invasion in Wells' book. The story goes from there.
Raines, Theron. The Singing: a Fable About What Makes Us Human. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press 1988 1st edition, hardcover. 163 p. A Martian spacecraft visits Earth and one of the crew meets a woman. A bit of a romance.
Riding, Julia. Space Traders Unlimited. London: Methuen 1987 1st edition, hardcover. A street kid on Mars finds clues to the identity of a saboteur setting explosions across the solar system.
Riding, Julia. Space Traders Unlimited. New York: Atheneum 1988 1st US edition, hardcover. A street kid on Mars finds clues to the identity of a saboteur setting explosions across the solar system.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. London: HarperCollins/Voyager 1996 1st edition, hardcover. 616 pgs. 3rd in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1997 Hugo and Locus Best Novel awards. Published some 2 mos. before the U.S. edition. An outstanding conclusion ot the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam/Spectra 1996 1st U.S. edition, hardcover. 609 pgs. 3rd in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1997 Hugo and Locus Best Novel awards. An outstanding conclusion ot the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press 1996 Deluxe signed hardcover. 3rd in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1997 Hugo and Locus Best Novel awards. An outstanding conclusion to the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam/Spectra 1997 1st U.S. paperback edition. 761 pgs. 3rd in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1997 Hugo and Locus Best Novel awards. An outstanding conclusion ot the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Green Mars. London: HarperCollins 1993 1st edition, hardcover. 2nd in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1994 Hugo Best Novel award. An excellent addition to the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles. Not related to Robinson’s novella by the same name.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Green Mars. New York: Bantam/Spectra 1994 1st U.S. edition, hardcover. 535 pgs. 2nd in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1994 Hugo Best Novel award. An excellent addition to the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles. Published simultaneously in hardback and trade paperback. Not related to Robinson’s novella by the same name.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Icehenge. New York: Ace 1984 1st U.S. edition, paperback. 262 pgs. An Ace paperback original. A n examination as to what shapes historical fact, this story takes places over several hundred years and focuses on a city destroyed in a Martian rebellion.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Icehenge. London: Futura 1985 1st UK edition, paperback. A n examination as to what shapes historical fact, this story takes places over several hundred years and focuses on a city destroyed in a Martian rebellion.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Icehenge. London: Macdonald 1986 1st UK hardcover edition. A examination as to what shapes historical fact, this story takes places over several hundred years and focuses on a city destroyed in a Martian rebellion.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Icehenge. New York: TOR 1990 Paperback. 262 pgs. An Ace paperback original. A n examination as to what shapes historical fact, this story takes places over several hundred years and focuses on a city destroyed in a Martian rebellion.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. London: HarperCollins 1992 1st edition, hardcover. Preceeded the US edition by 5 mos. 1st in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1993 Nebula Best Novel award. An excellent opening volume to the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. New York: Bantam/Spectra 1993 1st U.S. edition, hardcover. 519 pgs. Published simultaneously in hardback and trade paperback. 1st in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1993 Nebula Best Novel award. An excellent opening volume to the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. London: HarperCollins /Voyager 1996 Paperback. 1st in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1993 Nebula Best Novel award. An excellent opening volume to the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Martians. New York: Bantam / Spectra 1999 1st edition, hardcover. 336 p. A miscellany of Robinson's writings about Mars, including short stories, think-pieces, poems, and even a planetrary constution. A good work , adding more flesh to Robinson's considerable Martian trilogy.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Martians. New York: Bantam / Spectra 2000 1st paperback edition. 434 p. A miscellany of Robinson's writings about Mars, including short stories, think-pieces, poems, and even a planetrary constution. A good work , adding more flesh to Robinson's considerable Martian trilogy.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Introduction by James Gunn. Red Mars. Norwich, CT: Easton Press 1993 Deluxe, signed edition. Illus. by Ron Miller. 1st in the Mars Trilogy of Robinson. Winner of the 1993 Nebula Best Novel award. An excellent opening volume to the most important Mars work since the Martian Chronicles.
Rockwell, Carey. Stand By For Mars! New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1952 1st edition, hardcover. 216 pgs. Tom Corbett Space Cadet series. 3 space cadets crash on Mars, and survive in the Sahara(!!) like conditions to be rescued.
Rockwood, Roy. Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record. New York: Cupples and Leon 1910 1st edition, hardcover. 248 p. 2 heroes and a professor deal with crazy mechanics, space dangers, and trying to steal a Martian energy source before finally making it back home. Bleiler suggests the book is of "dubious morality".
Russell, Eric Frank. Men, Martians and Machines. London: Dobson 1955 1st edition, hardcover. 191 p. Contains: Jay Score, Mechanistria, Mesmerica, Symbiotica. 4 stories that deal with the Terran and martian crew of the good ship Marathon and it's explorations in th solar system. Not so much about Mars, but the chess playing Martian engineers are interesting.
Russell, Eric Frank. Men, Martians and Machines. New York: Roy Publishers 1956 1st US edition, hardcover. 191 p. Contains: Jay Score, Mechanistria, Mesmerica, Symbiotica. 4 stories that deal with the Terran and martian crew of the good ship Marathon and it's explorations in th solar system. Not so much about Mars, but the chess playing Martian engineers are interesting.
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.
Seddon, Andrew M. Red Planet Rising. Wheaton, IL: Crossways 1995 Trade paperback, 1st edition. 240 p. A Christian novel about Mars.
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.
Sharkey, Jack. The Secret Martians. New York: Ace 1960 1st edition, paperback. Half of Ace Double #471 with Sanctuary of the Sky by John Brunner, which was published earlier.
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.
Shatner, William. Man O' War. New York: Putnam 1996 1st edition, hardcover. 256 p. A diplomat on the outs is assigned to Mars just as the conists are ready to revolt. Sequel is Law of War.
Shatner, William. Man O' War. New York: Ace 1997 1st paperback edition. 304 p. A diplomat on the outs is assigned to Mars just as the conists are ready to revolt. Sequel is Law of War.
Shiner, Lewis. Frontera. New York: Baen 1984 1st edition, paperback. A cyberpunk view of the early exploration of Mars.
Silverberg, Robert. Lost Race of Mars. New York: Scholastic Book Services 1960 1st edition, paperback.
Silverberg, Robert. Lost Race of Mars. Philadelphia: Winston 1960 1st edition, paperback.
Smith, George H. The Second War of the Worlds. New York: DAW 1976 1st edition, paperback. The Martians are back, prepared for bacteria and with human allies.
Stabenow, Dana. Red Planet Run. New York: Ace 1995 1st edition, paperback. Taking up a mission to explore mars where others have failed, the heroine Star Svensdotter finds psce pirates, a secret colony, and ancient ruins.
Steele, Allen. Labyrinth of Night. London: Century 1992 1st edition, hardback. 353 p. Published in hardback before the 1st U.S. edition. Old ruins, national rivalries, and government conspiracies.
Steele, Allen. Labyrinth of Night. New York: Ace 1992 1st U.S. edition, paperback. 340 pgs. Ace paperback original. Old ruins, national rivalries, and government conspiracies.
Stine, G. Harry. Rocket Man. New York: Henry Holt 1955 1st edition, hardcover.
Stith, John E. Death Tolls. New York: Ace 1987 1st edition, paperback. A journalist investigates teh death of his brother in an aircraft crash on mars.
Stoff, Joshua. The Voyage of the Ruslan : the First Manned Exploration of Mars. New York: Atheneum 1986 1st edition, hardcover. A story of the first expedition to Mars, manned by Russians.
Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris [Strugatski]. introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. translated by Gary Kern. Second Invasion From Mars New York: Collier 1979 1st edition, trade paperback. "New Science Fiction from Russia". Published with Far Rainbow. First published in 1968. Martians take over the Earth as purchasing agents after thir Wellsian invasion failure.
Sullivan, Tim. Martian Viking. New York: Avon 1991 1st edition, paperback. Cover art by Ron Walotsky. A prisoner on a Mars penal colont takes drugs and imagines he is a Viking in space.
Summers, Dennis (pseud. of Geoffrey John Barrett). A Madness from Mars. London: Robert Hale 1976 1st edition, hardcover. Does not appear to have been published in the US. Need to knwo the content of the book.
Sykes, S. C. Introduction by Isaac Asimov, short article and bibliography by Eugene Mallove. Red Genesis. New York: Bantam 1991 1st edition, paperback. 360 + xx pgs. Short article "Off to Explore Mars" with bibliography by Eugene Mallove. A framed man is sent to Mars as a punishment and tries to clear his name, meeting extrasolar aliens who cannot lie along the way.
Telep, Peter. Red Planet. New York: Ace 2000 1st edition, paperback. Novelization of a screenplay. A crippled orbiting spacecraft and an exploration mission hunted by their own malfuntioning war robot.
Tolstoy, Alexei. translated by Antonina W. Bouis. Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. Aelita. New York: Macmillan 1981 1st US edition, hardcover. 1st pub. in 1922, revised in 1937. This translation is based on the 1937 edition. A Red Army soldier incites the natives to rebellion.
Tolstoy, Alexei. translated by Leland Fetzer. Aelita: or the Decline of Mars. . Ann Arbor: Ardis 1985 Paperback. 1st pub. in 1922, revised in 1937. This translation is based on the 1922 edition. A Red Army soldier incites the natives to rebellion.
Tolstoy, Alexei. translated by Lucy Flaxman. Aelita. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1950? 1st edition in English. 1st pub. in 1922, revised in 1937. This translation is based on the 1937 edition. A Red Army soldier incites the natives to rebellion.
Tubb, E. C. Alien Dust. London: Boardman 1955 1st UK edition, hardcover. A colony suffers a setback, and then is abandoned.
Tubb, E. C. Alien Dust. New York: Avalon 1957 1st U.S. edition, hardcover. 223 pgs. A colony suffers a setback, and then is abandoned.
Tubb, E. C. Atom-War on Mars London: Hamilton & Co. 1952 1st UK edition, hardcover. Need More information.
Tubb, E. C. Atom-War on Mars London: Panther 1952 1st UK paperback edition. Need More information.
Tubb, E.C. C.O.D. Mars. New York: Ace 1968 1st edition, paperback. Ace Double H-40. Published with ALIEN SEA by John Rackham. The martian mafia want to capture 3 astronauts recently back from Proxima Centauri to get important advantage of Earth, their competition.
Turner, Frederick. A Double Shadow. New York: Putnam 1978 1st edition, hardcover. Author's first novel.
Turtledove, Harry. A World of Difference. New York: Del Rey 1990 1st edition, paperback. 308 p. A world modelled on Mars but with aliens, air, and water, with Viking landing tehre and sending back pictures. Humans arriave and meet the local Martians. Perhaps Turtledove is touching on soemthin we all wish could have happened.
Turtledove, Harry. A World of Difference. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1998 1st UK hardcover edition,. 308 p. A world modelled on Mars but with aliens, air, and water, with Viking landing tehre and sending back pictures. Humans arriave and meet the local Martians. Perhaps Turtledove is touching on soemthin we all wish could have happened.
Varley, John. In the Hall of the Martian Kings. London: Sidgwick & jackson 1978 1st UK edition, hardcover. Called The Persistence of Vision in the US.
Contains Air Raid, John Varley (as Herb Boehm), The Black Hole Passes, Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, In the Bowl, In the Hall of the Martian Kings, Introduction (The Persistence of Vision) an essay by Algis Budrys, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, The Persistence of Vision, The Phantom of Kansas, Retrograde Summer.
Varley, John. The Persistence of Vision New York: Dial 1978. 1st US hardback edition. [Published as In the Hall of the Martian Kings in the UK. Contains Air Raid, John Varley (as Herb Boehm), The Black Hole Passes, Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, In the Bowl, In the Hall of the Martian Kings, Introduction (The Persistence of Vision) an essay by Algis Budrys, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, The Persistence of Vision, The Phantom of Kansas, Retrograde Summer.
Watson, Ian. The Martian Inca. London: Gollancz 1977 1st UK edition, hardback. In a reverse of War of the Worlds, a Martian virus from a soil sample strikes the Earth and an American expedition at the same time.
Watson, Ian. The Martian Inca. New York: Scribners 1977 1st US hardback edition. In a reverse of War of the Worlds, a Martian virus from a soil sample strikes the Earth and an American expedition at the same time.
Watson, Ian. The Martian Inca. New York: Ace 1993 Paperback. In a reverse of War of the Worlds, a Martian virus from a soil sample strikes the Earth and an American expedition at the same time.
Weinbaum, Stanley G. A Martian Odyssey and Others. Reading, PA: Fantasy Press 1949 Anthology of stories written between 1934-1936. Hardcover. Contains: The Adaptive Ultimate(as John Jessel), The Brink of Infinity, The Circle of Zero, The Ideal, The Lotus Eaters, The Mad Moon, A Martian Odyssey, Parasite Planet, The Planet of Doubt, The Point of View, Proteus Island, Pygmalion's Spectacles, Valley of Dreams, The Worlds of If.
Weinbaum, Stanley G. and Sam Moskowitz. A Martian Odyssey. New York: Lancer 1962 Anthology. Contains: The Adaptive Ultimate -(as John Jessel), The Brink of Infinity , The Lotus Eaters A Martian Odyssey, Proteus Island, The Wonders of Weinbaum - essay by Sam Moskowitz
Weinbaum, Stanley G. and Sam Moskowitz. A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales. Hyperion 1974 Anthology. Contains: The Adaptive Ultimate -(as John Jessel), The Brink of Infinity , The Lotus Eaters A Martian Odyssey, Proteus Island,
The Wonders of Weinbaum - essay by Sam Moskowitz, the Circle of Zero, Dawn of Fame: The Career of Stanley G. Weinbaum - essay by Sam Moskowitz, Graph, The Ideal.
Wellman, Mac. Annie Salem: An American Tale. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press 1996 1st edition, paperback. A strange, satirical novel of a man from northern Ohio goes to Mars and fights the hated KKK to win the love of a woman. Yes, he goes to Mars to fight the KKK. The author is a well respected experimental playwright.
Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds. London: Heinemann 1898 1st edition, hardcover. Original state has 16 p. of ads at end. Originally published in the British magazine Pearsons, April - December, 1897 and the American magazine Cosmopolitan, January - December, 1897. One of the foundations of Martian science fiction.
Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds. New York: Harper 1898 1st US edition, hardcover. Published after the British edition. Originally published in the British magazine Pearsons, April - December, 1897 and the American magazine Cosmopolitan, April - December, 1897. One of the foundations of Martian science fiction.
Wells, H.G., with Introduction and Notes David Y. Hughes and Harry M. Geduld. A Critical Edition of War of the Worlds: H.G. Wells's Scientiic Romance. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press 1993 Hardcover. Extensive notes, comments, and appendices relating to the novel. Originally published in the British magazine Pearsons, April - December, 1897 and the American magazine Cosmopolitan, January - December, 1897. One of the foundations of Martian science fiction.
Whiteford, Wynne. Lake of the Sun. New York: Ace 1989 1st edition. 249 pgs. An Ace paperback original. An underground Martian civilization discovers Terrans have landed.
Whiteford, Wynne. The Specialist. New York: Ace 1990 1st edition. 246 pgs. An Ace paperback original. A journalist goes to the Martian colony to investigate reports of an Alien probe.
Wicks, Mark. To Mars Via the Moon: an Astronomical Story. Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott Co. 1911 1st edition, hardcover. A man who has lost his family makes a spaceschip to visit the Moon and mars, staying on mars when he finds his dead son, reincarnated as a Martian.
Wicks, Mark. To Mars Via the Moon: an Astronomical Story. London: Seeley & Co. 1911 1st UK edition, hardcover. A man who has lost his family makes a spaceschip to visit the Moon and mars, staying on mars when he finds his dead son, reincarnated as a Martian.
Williams, Michael Lindsay. Martian Spring. New York: Avon 1986 1st edition, paperback. 277 pgs. Part of the Martian series. A spacship crashes into Mars, setting off a kind-of natural terraforming effect. An expedition from Earth with a genetically created crew member (and main character) vists the planet and discovers the Hronka. An interesting way to have aliens on both sides of a first contact.
Williamson, Jack. Beachhead. New York: TOR 1992 1st edition, hardcover. 368 pgs. A problem plagued colonization effort struggles to stay in being.
Williamson, Jack and M. Breuer. The Girl from Mars. New York: Stellar Publishing Co. 1929 1st edition, hardcover.
Winkowski, Fred. The Martian Crystal Egg. New York: Harper & Row 1980 1st edition, hardcover. Illustrated by the author. A martian lookign for singing stones finds an entire city of crystal.
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.
Winterbotham, Russ (R. R.) The Red Planet. Derby, CT: Monarch Books 1962 1st edition, paperback. 140 pgs. From the author’s profile: “The author’s son-in-law is a member of the team developing the plasma space motor which is planned to carry men to Mars within the next 10 years.” Romatic and murderous crew rivalries, mad human scientists, and electrical-weaponed Martians.
Wolfe, Gene Operation Ares New York: Berkley 1970 1st edition, paperback. An abanoned Martian colony sends a mission back to a struggling Earth.
Wollheim, Donald A. Secret of the Martian Moons. Philadelphia: John C. Winston 1955 1st edition, hardcover. 206 p. Lovely cover art by Schomberg. A teenager returns home to a Mars colony from school on Earth, only to learn all humans have been ordered back to Earth. He, his dad, and other scientists head to Phobos to figure out why.
Woodcott, Keith (pseud. of John Brunner) The Martian Sphinx. New York: Ace 1965 1st edition, Ace F-320. Interstingly, the cover has a 5 wheeled rover.
Wyndham, John (Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris). Stowaway to Mars. New York: Fawcett 1972 1st US edition, paperback. 192 pgs. Paperback. First U.S. edition of Planet Plane. A millionaire sets out to win a monetary prize for the first expedition to reach Mars, with a surprise inside.
Young, Ruth. A Trip to Mars. New York: Orchard Books 1990. 1st edition, hardcover. A book for 6-8 year olds, a little girl takes a nightime jaunt to Mars with her cat, learning about the planet as she explores.

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