This is the key book page for my readings on the human exploration and understanding of Mars. There is a good set of posts in Marooned - Science Fiction & Fantasy books on Mars where Paul gives listings of lots of books and stories on Mars. October 2011: Read on a long flight back to Shanghai, but I was so busy on my short stay there I did not finish it until I was starting to fly back to the UK. Not quite as good as I had hoped, but I think it would be worth reading the further two volumes in this series. I can see why White Mars has been written as an alternative vision.

The books in my collection include:

Trilogy and companion volumes to Red Mars

Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
The Martians Kim Stanley Robinson
White Mars by Brian Aldiss
Grey Mars by Christopher J Young

Early Science fiction on Mars
Stowaway to Mars by John Wyndham
Roadways of Mars by Harl Vincent
Thia of the Drylands by Harl Vincent
Via Etherline by Gordon A. Giles
The Martian by Allen Glasser and A. Rowley Hilliard
The First Martian by Eando Binder
Across the Zodiac Percy Greg
To Mars via The Moon: An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks
Through Space to Mars or the Longest Journey on Record Roy Rockwood
Gulliver of Mars Edwin L. Arnold
Edison's Conquest of Mars Garrett P. Serviss
Vandals of the Void James Morgan Walsh
Exiles of Mars Frank K. Kelly
Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Ella Merchant
Stramashed by PJ Bristow (recreation of older styles)

Sword and Planet
Zarlah the Martian R. Norman Grisewood
The Tree of Life by Catherine Lucille Moore
A Princess of Mars the old Burroughs classic among many others he wrote on Mars
Black Amazon of Mars Leigh Brackett
The Martian Cabal R. F. Starzl
The Retreat to Mars Cecil B. White
King of the Fourth Planet Robert Moore Williams

Golden Age

Crime On Mars by Arthur C Clarke
Cargo to Mars by Walter H. Mulstay
The First Martian by A. E. van Vogt
The Hermit of Mars by Stephen Bartholomew
The Brain-Stealers of Mars by John W. Campbell
Men on Mars by Laurence Manning
The Signals to Mars by M. Bower
Catch That Martian by Damon Knight
Education of a Martian by Joseph Shallit
The Hills of Home by Alfred Coppel
$1000 a Plate by Jack McKenty
Dumb Martian John Wyndham
The Moons of Mars by Dean Evans
The Second Trip to Mars by Ward Moore
The Caves of Mars by Oliver E. Saari
Under the Sand-Seas by Emil Petaja
Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles Louis Fontenay
Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey
The Man Who Hated Mars the classic by Randall Garrett
A Martian Odyssey Stanley G. Weinbaum
Valley of Dreams Stanley G. Weinbaum
I Like Martian Music Charles E. Fritch
The Man the Martians Made Frank Belknap Long
One Martian Afternoon Tom Leahy
Martians Never Die Lucius Daniel
The Old Martians Rog Phillips
A Rose for Eccclesiastes Roger Zelazny
Omnilingual H. Beam Piper
The Memory of Mars Raymond F. Jones
The Dope On Mars Jack Sharkey
The Holes Around Mars Jerome Bixby
Mars Confidential Howard Browne
Stand for Mars Carey Rockwell
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
Duel on Syrtis Poul William Anderson
The Sands of Mars Arthur C. Clarke
How we went to Mars Arthur C. Clarke
First on Mars Rex Gordon
Double Star Robert A. Heinlein
The Space Machine: A Scientific Romance Christopher Priest
Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
Martian Knightlife by James P. Hogan
B-12's Moon Glow by Charles A. Stearns
Goodbye Martian! by Romen Yarov
Ministering Angels by C. S. Lewis
The Day After We Land on Mars by R. S. Richardson
The Martian Sphinx by Keith Woodcott
The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis by Clark Ashton Smith
Martian Quest by Leigh Brackett
Project Mars - a technical tale by Wernher von Braun



Post Mariner 4 on Mars

The Deimos Plague by Charles Sheffield:

Mining the Oort by Frederik Pohl

Red Sands of Revolution by Tom Wells

One Way To Mars by Gary Weston

A Colony on Mars by Cliff Roehr

Mars (1992) Ben Bova
Return to Mars (1999) Ben Bova

Mars Life (2008) Ben Bova
Rainbow Mars Larry Niven

Moving Mars Greg Bear

One Day on Mars Travis S. Taylor
The Martian Race Gregory Benford

First Landing Robert Zubrin

The Mars Experiment Paul C. Vinci

Mars Crossing Geoffrey A. Landis

Mars Underground William K. Hartmann

Red Dust Paul McAuley

Welcome to Mars James Blish

Born Under Mars John Brunner

Desolation Road Ian McDonald

Mars Plus Frederik Pohl, Thomas T. Thomas

Man Plus Frederik Pohlh

Climbing Olympus by Kevin J. Anderson

Beachhead Jack Williamson

Frontera Lewis Shiner

Voyage Stephen Baxter

Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland

Empress of Mars by Kage Baker

The Martian Tragedy by Jacques Freydont

The Martian Ambassador by Alan K. Baker

Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson

China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

The Space Machine: A Scientific Romance by Christopher Priest

Semper Mars: Book One of the Heritage Trilogy by Ian Douglas

Operation ARES by Gene Wolfe

The Martian by Andy Weir

Alien Encounter by Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin, John Barnes
Mars Girl by Jeff Garrity
Hide And Seek (Venus Prime Series) by Paul Preuss
Solis by Al Attanasio
Voyage to the Red Planet by Terry Bisson
The Martian Inca by Ian Watson
Nightshade by Jack Butler

Ephialtes by Gavin E Parker

The God Mars Book One: CROATOAN by Michael Rizzo

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

Project Mars by C.O. Amal

Journey Back to Mars by Hugo Huesca

Red Planet Run by Dana Stabenow

Mars Encounter by J.J. Wright


Crime on Mars

The Martian Crown Jewels by Poul Anderson

Mars Station Alpha- A Novel by Stephen Penner

The Prometheus Incident, A Martian Murder Mystery by Joseph H.J. Liaigh

Milankovic: A Story of the Awakening by Paul B. Spence

The Blood Red Sands of Mars Greg Fowlkes - and many others by this author.



Short stories late 20th and 21st Century

The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James by Robert Silverberg

Mars : A Traveler ’s Guide by Ruth Nestvold

How to Become a Mars Overlord by Catherynne M. Valente

Marsdog by Beth Bernobich

Bus Ride To Mars by Cat Rambo

Winds of Mars by Bud Sparhawk

Encounter Below Tharsis Bob Buckley

Scientific Romance by Kevin J Anderson

The difficulties involved in photographing Nix Olympica by Brian W. Aldiss

Hiding on the Red Sands of Mars by Anaea Lay

We Have Always Lived On Mars by Cecil Castellucci

A Martian Ricorso by Greg Bear

The Film-makers of Mars by Geoff Ryman

The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal

Acceptable Losses by Ian Rennie

The Emperor of Mars by Allen M. Steele

Marsman Meets the Almighty by Don Trotter

Dry Lightning & Providence by Shaun.K.Adams

Imagine Cows on Mars by M. Bennardo

How Maartje and Uppinder Terraformed Mars by Lisa Nohealani Morton

Life on Mars by Kelly Jennings

Martian Heart by John Barnes

First One There Dies by Ray Daley

From Mars with love Julian Tang

Jacqui In Space byPaul Whybrow

Mission: Flight To Mars by V. A. Jeffrey

Waiting For by S. A. Barton

Voyage To Mars by Mario V. Farina

The Phantom Fleet by Julien Boyer

Attack of the Space Nazis from Mars by Kelly Harrass

NASA and the Mars Gold Rush by Eero Tarik

The Martian Antarctica Discovery by V Bertolaccini and is followed by Dyson Stargate.

King of Mars by Jack Stornoway

Milk Run by Ray Daley

From Fort Ibex by G J Lee

Explain That To A Martian 3 by Gary Weston

Tribute by Doug Turnbull

Astrogator by JD Chatternib

The Martian War by Gabriel Mesta

Great Wall of Mars Alastair Reynolds

Child-Empress of Mars Theodora Goss

Mars Won Stephen V. Ramey

Stealing Arturo William Ledbetter

The Essence of Mars by Wayne Ellis

Knowing Mars by Tycho Garen

Field Trip by Stuart Atkinson

Coyote Discovers Mars by Emily Mah

Bartlett Goes to Mars by Stuart Atkinson

Comet Night by Stuart Atkinson

Red Thunder by John Varley

A Man Called Mister Brown by A.R. Yngve

Private Eye by E. S. Strout

First Contact by E. S. Strout

Sanctuary Mons by Phred Serenissima

Mars's Gift by Jonathan J. Schlosser

The Eventful Career of Dr. Kevin Pearson, Astronomer
by Edward A. Laag

Catherine Drewe by Paul Cornell

The Full Story of the Firstborn Assault on Mars by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke

Droidtown Blues by Camille Alexa

Mars Ain’t No Place for Ladies by Filamena Young

The Water Thief by Ben Bova

The Clone-Wrangler’s Bride by Camille Alexa

The Green Fields of Mars by Jörn Grote

A Message Home by Stuart Atkinson

Another Museum by Stuart Atkinson

Freeing Spirit by Stuart Atkinson

Rover Hugger by Stuart Atkinson

Hunters by Stuart Atkinson

Gone by Stuart Atkinson

The Spirit of Christmas by Stuart Atkinson

Meridiani Messenger by Stuart Atkinson

Curtain Call by Bob Bolin

A Tulip for Lucretius by Ken Macleod

Planet Killer by Ges Seger and Kevin Grazier

let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs by Leonard Richardson

Water for Mars by Kevin P. Breen

Frontier Minerva by Anne Spackman

The Hubbard Continuum by Lavie Tidhar

Willpower by Jason Stoddard

Red Dust by Amanda Lord

The Winter Astronaut by Mark Patrick Lynch

Cake Whores of Mars by Marko Kloos

Live from the Mars Hotel by Allen Steele

Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Reentry Window by Eric Tozzi

Conspiracy Theory by Ben Bova

The Great Moon Hoax by Ben Bova

The Martian in the Wood by Stephen Baxter

Obelisk by Stephen Baxter

The Martian Obelisk by Linda Nagata

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Mars Nation 1 by Brandon Q. Morris

Mars Nation 2 by Brandon Q. Morris

Mars Nation 3 by Brandon Q. Morris

Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier edited by Jonathan Strahan, contains the following stories:

Attlee and the Long Walk by Kage Baker

The Old Man and the Martian Sea by Alastair Reynolds

Wahala by Nnedi Okorafor

On Chryse Plain by Stephen Baxter

First Principle by Nancy Kress

Martian Chronicles by Cory Doctorow

Goodnight Moons by Ellen Klages

The Taste of Promises by Rachel Swirsky

Digging by lan McDonald

Larp on Mars by Chris Roberson

Martian Heart by John Barnes

Discovering Life by Kim Stanley Robinson

Still to find

Ash, Fenton A Trip to Mars

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Martian Fever, Thomas King (2009)
Red Planet Rising Andrew M. Seddon (1995)

Gallum, Raymond Z. Skyclimber

"You Can't Escape from Mars!" by E. K. Jarvis.
"The Red Planet", by T. E. Dikty
"The Sound of Bugles", by Robert Moore Williams
"The First Martian", by A. E. van Vogt
"Tin Lizzie", by Randall Garrett
A Death at Station Alpha: Murder on Mars by Greg Fowlkes \
Mars Station Alpha: A Novel by Stephen Penner
The Martian by Andy Weir
“Who?” by Algis Budry - not really about Mars, rather and alternative history.

Off to Philip Mudd as part of a Mars collection.

On controlled release from johnevelyn

clearing some space in the office