The Book of Mars
An Anthology of Fact and Fiction
1st Edition
Published on 10. November 2022
896 pages
978-1-80110-929-1 (ISBN)
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From myth to Musk, astrology to astronomy, Dr Stuark Clark selects the very best writing about the Red Planet.
From its very first sighting, Mars has been a source of fascination for humanity. Named for the Roman god of war, this red planet has been explored more than any other beyond Earth and continues to occupy a distinctive place in our imagination. It's an environment that may even foster life.
In The Book of Mars, Dr Stuart Clark selects one hundred pieces of writing about the planet. It is a collection that brings together fact and fiction, dreams and fears, centuries of observation and more recent feats of interstellar exploration.
From classic writers of science fiction - Stanley G. Weinbaum, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Pamela Sargent, Roger Zelazny - to distinguished experts in astronomy, astrobiology and aerospace engineering; from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors - Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Robinette Kowal - to trail-blazing journalists and science communicators; from Andy Weir's The Martian to Elon Musk's SpaceX programme, The Book of Mars is an extraordinary overview both of the Red Planet and of the way scientific investigation diffuses into culture.
From its very first sighting, Mars has been a source of fascination for humanity. Named for the Roman god of war, this red planet has been explored more than any other beyond Earth and continues to occupy a distinctive place in our imagination. It's an environment that may even foster life.
In The Book of Mars, Dr Stuart Clark selects one hundred pieces of writing about the planet. It is a collection that brings together fact and fiction, dreams and fears, centuries of observation and more recent feats of interstellar exploration.
From classic writers of science fiction - Stanley G. Weinbaum, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Pamela Sargent, Roger Zelazny - to distinguished experts in astronomy, astrobiology and aerospace engineering; from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors - Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Robinette Kowal - to trail-blazing journalists and science communicators; from Andy Weir's The Martian to Elon Musk's SpaceX programme, The Book of Mars is an extraordinary overview both of the Red Planet and of the way scientific investigation diffuses into culture.
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1. Auflage
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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20 integrated b&w
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978-1-80110-929-1 (9781801109291)
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Stuart Clark is an author and journalist whose career is devoted to presenting the complex world of astronomy to the general public. He holds a first class honours degree and a PhD in astrophysics, is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a former Vice Chair of the Association of British Science Writers. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books including The Sun Kings, The Big Questions and Voyager and a trilogy of novels set around the times of greatest change in mankind's understanding of the Universe. Clark regularly writes for the The Times, New Scientist, BBC and Astronomy Now. The Independent placed him alongside Stephen Hawking and Professor Sir Martin Rees as one of the 'stars' of British astrophysics teaching.
Content
- Intro
- Also in the Anthology Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- DREAMS OF MARS
- MARS CHRONOLOGY
- RENAISSANCE TO THE SPACE AGE
- Paul Karol and David Catling
- The 1500s: The Copernican Revolution
- The 1600s: Pioneers of planetary motion and gravitation
- The 1700s: Mars, a planet similar to Earth
- The 1800s: Martian cartography, the canal craze, and psychic connections to Mars
- The 1900s: Gradual end of old superstitions and dawning of the Space Age
- UNVEILING A PARALLEL (1893)
- CHAPTER 3: THE AURORAS' ANNUAL
- Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Marchant
- JOURNEYS TO THE PLANET MARS OR OUR MISSION TO ENTO (1903)
- CHAPTER 2: SPECIAL FEATURES OF MARS
- Sara Weiss
- SIGNALING TO MARS (1909)
- Hugo Gernsback
- A PRINCESS OF MARS (1912)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- CHAPTER I On the Arizona Hills
- CHAPTER II The Escape of the Dead
- CHAPTER III My Advent on Mars
- LAST AND FIRST MEN (1930)
- CHAPTER IX: EARTH AND MARS
- Olaf Stapledon
- 1. THE SECOND MEN AT BAY
- 2. THE RUIN OF TWO WORLDS
- 3. THE THIRD DARK AGE
- A MARTIAN ODYSSEY (1934)
- Stanley G. Weinbaum
- OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET (1938)
- CHAPTER 16
- C. S. Lewis
- THE HERMIT OF MARS (1963)
- Stephen Bartholomew
- He was the Oldest Man on Mars ... in Fact, the Only One!
- A ROSE FOR ECCLESIASTES (1969)
- Roger Zelazny
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- TAKE BACK PLENTY (1990)
- Colin Greenland
- 2
- 3
- FALLING ONTO MARS (2002)
- Geoffrey A. Landis
- ENCHANTING LUNA AND MILITANT MARS (2010)
- Bruce R. Johnson
- PROJECTING LANDSCAPES OF THE HUMAN MIND ONTO ANOTHER WORLD (2012)
- CHANGING FACES OF AN IMAGINARY MARS
- Rainer Eisfeld
- 1 Deceptive World
- 2 Arcadian Mars
- 3 Advanced Mars
- 4 Frontier Mars
- 5 Cold War Mars
- 6 Terraformed Mars
- THE LADY ASTRONAUT OF MARS (2013)
- Mary Robinette Kowal
- FOR THE LOVE OF MARS (2018)
- WHY SETTLING THE RED PLANET CAN LIFT US FROM OUR ANTIHUMAN MALAISE
- James Poulos
- Ancestral Love
- To Love Mars
- Hear the Bad News
- The Closing of the Frontier
- The Californian Ideology
- Tech Anxieties
- In Human Time
- Mars, Our Destination
- OBSERVATIONS OF MARS
- MARS, BY THE LATEST OBSERVATIONS (1873)
- Camille Flammarion
- THE PLANET MARS
- GUARDIAN LETTERS, SEPTEMBER 1882
- J. T. Slugg
- MARS AND ITS CANALS (1906)
- CHAPTER XV: THE CANALS
- Percival Lowell
- ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED? (1913)
- Walter Maunder
- CHAPTER VII The Condition of Mars
- CHAPTER VIII The Illusions of Mars
- HELLO, EARTH! HELLO! (1920)
- Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi
- THE SATELLITES OF MARS (1970)
- PREDICTION AND DISCOVERY
- Owen Gingerich
- THE FACE ON MARS (1993)
- Sally Stephens
- The Martian Canals
- The Face on Mars
- Is the Face Real?
- Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Proof
- HOW THE ANCIENT GREEKS SET US ON THE PATH TO MARS (2021)
- Duncan Howitt-Marshall
- The Development of Ancient Greek Astronomy
- What the Ancient Greeks Knew About Mars
- Mars and the Personification of the God, Ares
- How the Ancient Greeks have Inspired Modern-Day Mars Exploration
- EXPLORING MARS
- ACROSS THE ZODIAC (1880)
- CHAPTER III: THE UNTRAVELLED DEEP
- Percy Greg
- BARON MÜNCHHAUSEN'S NEW SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURES, PART 5 (1915)
- MÜNCHHAUSEN DEPARTS FOR THE PLANET MARS
- Hugo Gernsback
- The Electrical Experimenter, vol. 3, no. 6, October 1915
- THE MARS PROJECT (1953)
- CHAPTER 9: HEADACHES OF A SPACE SHIP DESIGNER
- Wernher von Braun
- THE HOLES AROUND MARS (1954)
- Jerome Bixby
- OMNILINGUAL (1957)
- Henry Beam Piper
- MARS ON EARTH (2008)
- SOIL ANALOGUES FOR FUTURE MARS MISSIONS
- Jeffrey J. Marlow, Zita Martins, Mark A. Sephton
- Not just a Red Planet
- Types of Mars Analogues
- Mars-like Terrestrial Locations
- Meteorites
- Towards a Comprehensive Catalogue
- Conclusions
- SCIENCE RESULTS FROM THE MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSION (2008)
- Steven Squyres
- Introduction
- Presentation
- PHOENIX ON MARS (2010)
- THE LATEST SUCCESSFUL LANDING CRAFT HAS MADE NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT WATER ON THE RED PLANET
- Walter Goetz
- Anatomy of a Lander
- Where It All Happens
- The Soil Itself
- Nice Weather
- Where Phoenix Is Now
- THE MARTIAN (2011)
- Andy Weir
- CHAPTER 1 LOG ENTRY: SOL 6
- CHAPTER 2 LOG ENTRY: SOL 7
- LOG ENTRY: SOL 10
- LOG ENTRY: SOL 11
- LOG ENTRY: SOL 14
- LOG ENTRY: SOL 15
- LOG ENTRY: SOL 16
- LOG ENTRY: SOL 22
- RIDING ALONG WITH THE MARS ROVER DRIVERS (2012)
- Rebecca Boyle
- The Daily Grind
- Losing Spirit
- CURIOSITY ROVER'S DESCENT TO MARS (2013)
- THE STORY SO FAR
- Robin McKie
- Meanwhile Back on Earth.Curiosity's Successor Takes Shape in Hertfordshire
- PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SENDING HUMANS TO MARS (2014)
- CHALLENGES AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- Antonio Paris
- Introduction
- 1. Physiological Aspects of Space Travel
- 1.1 Radiation
- 1.2 The Cardiovascular System in Space
- 1.3 The Neuro-Sensory System in Space
- 1.4 The Musculo-Skeletal System in Space
- 1.5 Potential Risk of Permanent Damage to Vision
- 2. Psychological Aspects of Space Travel
- 3. Long-term Food and Nutritional Concerns
- 4. Operational Medicine and Health Care Delivery
- 5. Leveraging the International Space Station
- Conclusion
- THE SOVIET MARS SHOT THAT ALMOST EVERYONE FORGOT (2020)
- Andy Heil
- The 'Horizon' Image
- Soft Landing, Harder Luck
- Ground Control Saves Major Time
- Keeping Pace in a Space Race
- WATER ON MARS (2020)
- A LITERATURE REVIEW
- Mohammad Nazari-Sharabian, Mohammad Aghababaei, Moses Karakouzian and Mehrdad Karami
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Evidence from Rocks and Minerals
- 3. Geomorphic Evidence
- 4. Development of Mars' Water Inventory
- 5. Evidence for Recent Flows
- 6. Summary
- THE FUTURE OF MARS EXPLORATION, FROM SAMPLE RETURN TO HUMAN MISSIONS (2020)
- Jeff Foust
- Assessing Mars Sample Return
- Mars Ice Mapper
- Developing a Communications Network
- Planning for Humans
- THE KEY TO FUTURE MARS EXPLORATION? PRECISION LANDING (2020)
- Kara Platoni
- INGENUITY (2020)
- HOW THE MARS HELICOPTER WILL FLY ON ANOTHER PLANET
- Paul Parsons
- How Ingenuity will Explore Mars
- Specifications
- Ingenuity on Trial
- MARS SAMPLE RETURN (2021)
- THE MISSION THAT WILL BRING HOME A PIECE OF ANOTHER PLANET
- Sara Rigby
- The Mars Sample Relay
- FEARS OF MARS
- THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898)
- CHAPTER X: IN THE STORM
- H. G. Wells
- THE GREAT SACRIFICE (1903)
- George C. Wallis
- I. Signs in the Sky
- II. The Message from Mars
- III. Days of Despair
- IV. A Cleft in the Clouds
- V. The Flashes of Flame
- VI. The Supreme Sacrifice
- PIED PIPER OF MARS (1942)
- Frederic A. Kummer
- THE MOONS OF MARS (1952)
- Dean Evans
- THE MAN WHO HATED MARS (1956)
- Randall Garrett
- THE JANITOR ON MARS (1999)
- Martin Amis
- 1
- 2
- PIECES OF MARS HAVE FALLEN TO EARTH (2015)
- Cherise Saywell
- LIFE ON MARS
- NICOLA TESLA PROMISES COMMUNICATION WITH MARS (1901)
- Nikola Tesla
- Tesla's Dream
- The Real Question
- IS MARS HABITABLE? (1907)
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Chapter II Mr. Percival Lowell's Discoveries and Theories
- Chapter III The Climate and Physiography of Mars
- Chapter IV Is Animal Life Possible On Mars?
- THE THINGS THAT LIVE ON MARS (1908)
- H. G. Wells
- Does Life Exist on Mars?
- Probable Appearance of the Martian Flora
- The Animal Kingdom
- No Fish on the Planet
- Climatic Conditions
- The Ruling Inhabitants
- How Like Terrestrial Humanity?
- Martian Civilization
- MARS AS THE ABODE OF LIFE (1908)
- CHAPTER VI: PROOFS OF LIFE ON MARS
- Percival Lowell
- RED STAR (1922)
- THE FIRST BOLSHEVIK UTOPIA
- Alexander Bogdanov
- 1. Menni's Apartment
- 2. The Factory
- THE ORIGIN OF LIFE (1924)
- THE WORLD OF THE LIVING AND THE WORLD OF THE DEAD
- Alexander Oparin
- MARS: THE CASE FOR LIFE (1998)
- Christopher McKay
- THE VIRTUAL ASTRONAUT (2004)
- Robert Park
- MARS AND THE PARANORMAL (2008)
- Robert Crossley
- WHY ARE WE OBSESSED WITH MARTIANS? (2015)
- Natalie Haynes
- We Come in Peace
- Life on Mars
- Science Fact?
- I'M CONVINCED WE FOUND EVIDENCE OF LIFE ON MARS IN THE 1970s (2019)
- Gilbert Levin
- THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS (2020)
- CHAPTER 1: FROZEN IN TIME
- Elizabeth Howell and Nicholas Booth
- PLANETARY PROTECTION IN THE NEW SPACE ERA (2020)
- SCIENCE AND GOVERNANCE
- Thomas Cheney, Christopher Newman, Karen Olsson-Francis, Scott Steele, Victoria Pearson and Simon Lee
- Introduction
- The COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy
- International Space Law
- New Space and the Problem of Enforcement
- Environmental Framework for Outer Space?
- Conclusion
- COLONIZING MARS
- THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES (1946)
- OCTOBER 2026: THE MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
- Ray Bradbury
- THE SANDS OF MARS (1951)
- CHAPTER 11
- Arthur C. Clarke
- MARTIAN TIME-SLIP (1964)
- CHAPTER 2
- Philip K. Dick
- THE HUMAN EXPLORER (2004)
- WHY SENDING ROBOTS IS NOT ENOUGH
- Robert Zubrin
- WHEN WE DIE ON MARS (2015)
- Cassandra Khaw
- BEFORE THEY COME (2016)
- Sharon Goza
- TO SAVE EARTH, GO TO MARS (2016)
- Joe Mascaro
- SURVIVAL (2017)
- MARS FICTION AND EXPERIMENTS WITH LIFE ON EARTH
- Sabine Höhler
- Life on Mars
- 1. Equilibrium
- 2. Circulation
- 3. Closure
- 4. Conversion
- 5. Re/Construction
- 6. Upscaling
- Life on Mars Revisited
- THE RETURN OF THE SPACE VISIONARIES (2018)
- Rand Simberg
- Lost on Mars
- Early Space Visions
- Rocket Men
- Three Rival Visions of Humanity's Role in Space
- The Long Death of Apollo
- The New Visionaries
- Change on the Way
- A 'Global Commons'?
- Securing Property Rights in Space
- WHO OWNS MARS? (2018)
- ELON MUSK AND THE GOVERNANCE OF SPACE
- Tomás Sidenfaden
- Life on Mars
- Other Space Racers
- The Biggest Questions Surrounding Interplanetary Colonization
- Those Who Ignore The History of Colonization Are Doomed To Repeat It
- MARS OR BUST (2018)
- HOW SCIENCE FICTION FILMS WILL PROMOTE MARS COLONIZATION REALITY
- H Raven Rose
- Introduction
- Background: Red Planet Siren Call
- From Childhood Visions to Space-Age Reality
- Real or Imagined: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
- The Original Purge: Your Emotions on Story
- Transformation Through Story
- Have Sci-Fi-Will Travel: Fiction as Portal or Gateway
- Your Mind on Story: from Fantasy to Reality
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Cinema as Mind Control!
- Neuroscience of Story
- Conclusion: Just the Beginning
- THE MARS DECISION (2019)
- HOW TO SHOW THAT AMERICAN DEMOCRACY CAN STILL DO GREAT THINGS
- Robert Zubrin
- Purpose-Driven Missions
- The Graveyard of Purposeless Programs
- Wrong Goal, Right Goal
- Mars the Hard Way
- If You Want to Go to Mars, Go to Mars
- Getting Started
- EVALUATION OF A HUMAN MISSION TO MARS BY 2033 (2019)
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- The Institute for Defense Analysis Science and Technology Policy Institute
- A. Assessment 1. Technology Assessment
- 2. Estimating Schedule
- 3. Estimating Cost
- 4. Mapping Costs to Budget
- 5. Human Health Risks
- B. Feasibility of a Mission to Mars Before 2037
- C. Implications of Additional Missions for Budget and Schedule
- 1. Implications of Changing the Timing of ISS Phaseout
- 2. Implications of Increasing Gateway Use
- 3. Implications of the Moon Exploration Missions
- D. Alignment between NASA's Plans for a Human Mission to Mars and its Exploration Strategy Principles
- Principle 1: Fiscal Realism
- Principle 2: Scientific Exploration
- Principle 3: Technology Pull and Push
- Principle 4: Gradual Buildup of Opportunity
- Principle 5: Economic Opportunity
- Principle 6: Architecture Openness and Resilience
- Principle 7: Global Collaboration and Leadership
- Principle 8: Continuity of Human Spaceflight
- E. Observations on the Campaign Report
- F. Overall Assessment and Recommendations
- LOST ON MARS (2018)
- WHY SPACE COLONIZATION WILL DISAPPOINT YOU
- Micah Meadowcroft
- A New Worldview
- The Self in the New World
- Power Over Nature
- Power Over Man
- Are You Happy?
- The New World
- MISSION TO MARS (2019)
- THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO GETTING TO THE RED PLANET
- Leah Crane
- 1. Leaving Earth
- 2. In Transit
- 3. Who do We Send?
- 4. Landing and Living on Mars
- 5. Home Time
- Mars Walk
- ONCE UPON A TIME I LIVED ON MARS (2021)
- CHAPTER II: ASTRO-GASTRONOMY
- Kate Greene
- TURNING THE RED PLANET GREEN (2020)
- HOW WE'LL GROW CROPS ON MARS
- James Romero
- All the Salad You Want, But No Chips
- Barriers to Growth
- Calorie Deficit
- THE NEXT 500 YEARS: ENGINEERING LIFE TO REACH NEW WORLDS (2021)
- CHAPTER 1: THE FIRST GENETIC ASTRONAUTS
- Christopher E. Mason
- DNA Damage
- Unexpected Responses to Spaceflight
- Returning to Earth
- Future Missions
- Genetic Defenses
- Notes
- Extended Copyright
- About the Author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
