The Martians

By Kim Stanley Robinson

A glorious companion volume to Robinson’s world-wide bestselling trilogy.

All Colours Mars

Red Mars. Green Mars. Blue Mars.

The Mars trilogy has rapidly assumed the status of modern science fiction classic, capturing the imagination of hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. Now, with The Martians, comes Kim Stanley Robinson’s essential companion to the Mars series. New novellas and short stories head the collection, along with texts on the Martian constitution, maps and Martian inspired poetry.

In short, The Martians is a unique collection of previously unpublished fiction, a fascinating addition to Robinson’s oeuvre, and a must for all lovers of the red planet.

Format: Paperback (A Format)
Release Date: 16 Sep 2011
Pages: 480
ISBN: 978-0-00-649702-8
Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised Mars series.

‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’GUARDIAN -

'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’NEW YORK TIMES -

Praise for The Mars Trilogy: -

‘One of the finest works of American SF’TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT -

‘The ultimate in future history’DAILY MAIL -

‘Absorbing, impressive, fascinating… Utterly plausible’FINANCIAL TIMES -

‘A staggering book. The best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written’Arthur C. Clarke -

‘Red Mars may simply be the best novel ever written about Mars’INTERZONE -