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Visions of Mars: The Stories
On May 25, 2008, Visions of Mars landed on Mars on board the spacecraft Phoenix, in a mini-dvd provided by The Planetary Society. Personal greetings by space visionaries of our time to Mars settlers of the future , are accompanied by 80 stories and articles by leading writers and scientists. A collection of Mars artwork, and classic radio shows narrated by Patrick Stewart, complete this unique tapestry of our knowledge and our dreams of Mars in the 20th century.
Below is a complete list of texts included in Visions of Mars, this unprecedented message to the future. The authors are extraordinarily diverse, include renown science fiction writers such as Arthur Clarke and Ray Bradbury, Enlightenment wits such as Jonathan Swift and Voltaire, modern philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and Umberto Eco, and many many others. They, along with the participating artists, represent 22 different nationalities and cultures including the United States, Canada, the U.K., Russia, France, Germany, Japan, Syria, Israel, Finland, Korea, China, Thailand, India, Armenia, Greece, Netherlands, Argentina, Switzerland, Italy, Babylonian culture, and Innuit culture.
Along with this priceless collection of the words and writings, the Phoenix DVD also carries the names of all Planetary Society members, as well as others who signed up on the Society website.
Visions of Mars: The Texts | ||
Author | Title | Date |
| Abe Kobo | The Special Envoy | |
Aitmatov, Chingiz | The Day Lasts More than 100 years | 1983 |
Aldiss, Brian | The Difficulties of Photographing Nix Olympica | 1986 |
Anderson, Poul | The Martian Crown Jewels | 1958 |
| Aramaki Yoshio | Soft Clocks | |
Arnold, Edwin L. | Gulliver of Mars (excerpt) | 1905 |
Ash, Fenton | A Trip to Mars (excerpt) | 1909 |
Asimov, Isaac | I'm in Marsport Without Hilda | 1957 |
Asimov, Isaac | The Martian Way | 1952 |
Asimov, Isaac | The Romance of Mars (excerpt) | 1971 |
Bear, Greg | A Martian Ricorso | 1976 |
Ballard, J.G. | The Time Bomb | 1963 |
Benford, Gregory | All the Beer on Mars | 1988 |
Binder, Eando | Via Etherline | 1937 |
Bogdanov, Alexander | Red Star | 1908 |
Bova, Ben | Mars | 1993 |
Brackett, Leigh | 2038: The Road to Sinharat | 1963 |
Bradbury, Ray | The Martian Chronicles | 1950 |
Brown, Fredric | The Last Martian | 1950 |
Burroughs, E.R. | A Princess of Mars (excerpt) | 1917 |
Clarke, Arthur C. | Transit of Earth | 1951 |
Clarke, Arthur C. | The Sands of Mars | 1951 |
Delany, Samuel | High Weir | 1968 |
Derleth, August | The Martian Artifact | 1957 |
Dick, Philip K. | We Can Remember It for You Wholesale | 1966 |
Dick, Steven | Back to the Future | 1993 |
Disch, Thomas | The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (excerpt) | 1988 |
Dorsey, Candas Jane | Johnny Appleseed on the New World | 1985 |
Dunsany, Lord | Mars on the Ether | 1937 |
Eco, Umberto | I tre cosmonauti | 1989 |
Fast, Howard | The Martian Shop | 1959 |
| Friedman, Louis | Afterword to Visions of Mars | 1996 |
Gallun, Raymond Z. | Old Faithful | 1934 |
Greg, Percy | Across the Zodiac (excerpt) | 1880 |
Harrison, Harry | One Step from Earth | 1970 |
Hillegas, Mark R. | Martians and Mythmakers: 1877-1938 | 1970 |
Hoyle, Fred | The Martians | 1967 |
| Ishikawa Takashi | The Road to the Sea | |
Kazantsev, Alexander | The Martian | 1962 |
Kazantsev, Alexander | A Visitor from Outer Space | 1962 |
Kline, Otis Adelbert | The Swordsman of Mars (excerpt) | 1933 |
Koch, Howard | The Panic Broadcast | 1970 |
Lasswitz, Kurd | Auf Zwei Planeten (excerpt) | 1897 |
Le Rouge, Gustave | Le prisonnier de la planet Mars | 1908 |
Lowell, Percival | Mars as the Abode of Life (excerpt) | 1909 |
McDonald, Ian | The Catharine Wheel | 1983 |
Merril, J. Kornbluth C. | Outpost Mars | 1952 |
Miller, P. Schuyler | The Cave | 1934 |
| Mitsuse Ryu | The Sunset, 2217 A.D. | |
Moorcock, Michael | Mars | 1988 |
Moore, C.L. | Dust of Gods | 1934 |
Newman, Kim | Famous Monsters | 1988 |
Niven, Larry | The Hole Man | 1973 |
Owen, Tobias | Science versus Fiction | 1993 |
Piper, H. Beam | Omnilingual | 1957 |
Pohl, Frederik | The Martian Star-Gazers | 1962 |
Pope, Gustavus W. | Journey to Mars (excerpt) | 1894 |
Robinson, Kim Stanley | Green Mars | 1985 |
Rosny, J. Heinz | Les navigateurs de l'infini | 1925 |
Russell, Bertrand | Planetary Effulgence | 1961 |
Sagan, Carl | Cosmos (excerpt) | 1980 |
Schiaparelli, Giovanni | Report on Canali | 1877 |
Serviss, Garrett P. | Edison's Conquest on Mars | 1898 |
Shklovskii, Iosef | Are the Moons of Mars Artificial Satellites? | 1966 |
Simak, Clifford | Hermit of Mars | 1939 |
Sinisalo, Johanna | PunatShti | 1990 |
Stapledon, Olaf | Last and First Men (exerpt) | 1930 |
Steele, Allen | Live from Mars Hotel | 1988 |
Stoff, Joshua | The Voyage of the Ruslan | 1986 |
Strugatsky, A. & B. | The Second Invasion from Mars | 1979 |
Sturgeon, Theodore | The Man Who Lost the Sea | 1959 |
Sturgeon, Theodore | The Martian and the Moron | 1949 |
Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travel | 1726 |
Tolstoi, Alexei | Aelita | 1922 |
Van Vogt, A.E. | Enchanted Village | 1950 |
Varley, John | In the Hall of the Martian Kings | 1976 |
Voltaire | Micromegas | 1752 |
Vonnegut, Kurt | The Sirens of Titan (excerpt) | 1959 |
Watt-Evans, Lawrence | Windwagon Smith and the Martian | 1989 |
Weinbaum, Stanley G. | A Martian Odyssey | 1934 |
Wells, H.G. | The War of the Worlds (excerpt) | 1889 |
Wicks, Mark | To Mars Via the Moon (excerpt) | 1911 |
Williamson, Jack | Nonstop to Mars | 1939 |
Zelazny, Roger | A Rose for Ecclesiastes | 1963 |