chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (06/04/85)
Here is the summary of replies for my request on stories set on mars. thanks to everyone for taking the time to send me your thoughts -- you shook out a few forgotten stories I'm happy to remember, and pointed me in a couple of places I missed. chuq ---- ***** From ihnp4!pur-ee!weil My all-time favorite set of Mars stories is the Michael Kane trillogy by Michael Moorcock. City of the Beast (Warriors of Mars) Lord of the Spiders (Blades of Mars) Masters of the Pit (Barbarians of Mars) The names in paren's are the original titles which were published under the pen-name of Edward P. Bradbury. ***** From decwrl!muffy@lll-crg Stanley Weinbaum, "A Martian Odyssey" Arthur C. Clarke, "Report on Planet Three" C. L. Moore, "Shambleau" C. L. Moore, "The Tree of Life" John Varley, "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" ***** From decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot if you forget to list Zelazny's "A Rose for Ecclesiastes", SZKB will probably shoot you. It's in many collections. Most of the C. L. Moore's Northwest Smith stories in _Scarlet_Dream_ (Donald M. Grant, 1981) take place on Mars: "Shambleau", "The Tree of Life", "Scarlet Dream", "Dust of the Gods", "The Cold Gray God", "Yvala". But, again, I like Brackett's _The_Coming_of_the_Terrans_ best. It's a volume of short stories, but rather than Moore's adventurer encountering strange and fantastic creatures, Brackett's are stories about earth-people, with their technology, and their interactions with the superficially innocent/docile members of the ancient race of martians; Brackett is more modern, less eerie and weird than Moore or much of Bradbury. "Mars Minus Bisha" is devastating: 'So small a grave did not take long to dig.' _The_Sword_of_Rhiannon_ is also by Leigh Brackett and also about Mars. Oh, and the Walter R. Brooks books are _Freddy_and_the_Men_from_Mars_ and _Freddy_and_the_Baseball_Team_from_Mars_ (same Martians in both). ***** From ihnp4!mtgzz!daemon Arnold, Edwin L. Gulliver of Mars Asimov, Isaac Martian Way Blish, James Welcome to Mars Bradbury, Edward P. Barbarians of Mars Bradbury, Edward P. Blades of Mars Bradbury, Edward P. Warriors of Mars Bradbury, Ray Martian Chronicles Bretnor, Reginald Spear of Mars Brown, Fredric Martians, Go Home Brunner, John Born Under Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice Chessmen of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice Fighting Man of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice John Carter of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice Mastermind of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice Princess of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice Swords of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice Synthetic Men of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice Thuvia, Maid of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice Warlord of Mars Carter, Lin Man Who Loved Mars Chandler, A. Bertram Alternate Martians (M-129*) Charkin, Paul Light of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. Prelude to Mars [PS,SM+]= Clarke, Arthur C. Sands of Mars Claudy, Carl H. Mystery Men of Mars= Del Rey, Lester Marooned on Mars Dick, Philip K. Martian Time-Slip Farmer, Philip Jose Jesus on Mars Gordon, Rex First on Mars Grinnell, David Martian Missile (D-465) Heinlein, Robert A. Podkayne of Mars Hipolito, Jane Mars, We Love You Judd, Cyril Outpost Mars Kline, Otis Adelbert Outlaws of Mars Kline, Otis Adelbert Swordsman of Mars Long, Frank Belknap Mars Is My Destination Moskowitz, Sam Under the Moons of Mars= O'Neill, Scott Martian Sexpot Petaja, Emil Caves of Mars (M-133) Russell, Eric Frank Men, Martians, and Machines Serviss, Garrett P. Invasion Mars [Edison's] Sharkey, Jack Secret Martians (D-471) Sohl, Jerry Mars Monopoly (D-162) Tubb, E. C. C.O.D. Mars (H-40) Weinbaum, Stanley G. Martian Odyssey Wollheim, Donald A. Secret of the Martian Moons Woodcott, Keith Martian Sphinx Wyndham, John Sleepers of Mars Wyndham, John Stowaway to Mars Evelyn C. Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl ***** From seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo Try Arthur Clarke's "Prelude to Mars"...it's entertaining if you don't mind it being dated.... ***** From fortune!allegra!convex!ctvax!trsvax!wkb My all time favorite is the classic "Martian Odyssey". There are some other good stories that have scenes on Mars (like "Gateway"), but the only others that I can remember are in "The Martian Chronicals". ***** From ames!barry 1) Martian Chronicles Bradbury 2) Red Planet Heinlein 3) A Rose For Ecclesiastes Zelazny 4) High Weir Delany 5) A Martian Odyssey Weinbaum 6) Open to Me, My Sister Farmer (aka My Sister's Brother) 7) The John Carter series Burroughs 8) Man Plus Pohl 9) The Rolling Stones Heinlein 10) Barbarians of Mars "Edward Bradbury" (Michael Moorcock) 11) The Martian Way Asimov 12) Jesus On Mars Farmer 13) War of the Worlds Wells 14) Shambleau C. L. Moore 15) The Crystal Egg Wells 16) A Journey to Mars Gustavus W. Pope 17) Edison's Conquest of Mars Garrett P. Serviss 18) The Forgotten Man of Space P. Shuyler Miller 19) Old Faithful Raymond Z. Gallun 20) Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis 21) Sands of Mars Clarke 22) Martian Time-Slip Dick 23) Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich Dick 24) The Space Machine Christopher Priest 25) The Martian Inca Ian Watson 26) In the Hall of the Martian Kings Varley ***** From decwrl!decvax!yale!sharp I really enjoyed the books Heinlein set on Mars. These were among his juveniles; some that spring to mind are Red Planet, part of Rolling Stones, and Podykane of Mars (a little). There are, of course, many others. I liked The Sands of Time by Arthur C. Clarke (I'm not, embarrassingly enough, totally positive about the title). Asimov had a good set of stories, including The Martian Way. ***** From seismo!aplvax!osiris!rob@maryland Larry Niven has a few Mars stories in his Known Space history: Eye of an Octopus How the Heroes Die At the Bottom of a Hole and another that isn't connected to anything else, The Hole Man. ***** From seismo!mcvax!ukc!drb@ukc.ac.uk I liked the book by Robert Heinlein "Red Planet", which was, suprisingly, set on Mars. ***** From ihnp4!burl!geoff Red Planet -- Heinlein (of course) -- :From the misfiring synapses of: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA The offices were very nice, and the clients were only raping the land, and then, of course, there was the money...