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Going To Mars: Word By Word – Northwest Smith
by Robert Burrows © 2012 This is my second GTMWBW* post. Come along on this trip to Mars via the words of C.L Moore in her Northwest Smith stories. The Northwest Smith stories belong firmly in the...
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Going to Mars Word by Word: C.S. Lewis style
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis is the third in my Going to Mars Word by Word series and offers a fascinating view of Mars. First published in Britain in 1938 and in 1943, in the United States,...
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Going to Mars, Word by Word: Bradbury and Unintended Consequences
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury is not a story in the traditional sense. In Bradbury’s own words, it is a series of “Martian penseés, Shakespearean ‘asides,’ wondering thoughts, night visions,...
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Going to Mars Word by Word with an Optimistic Knight
We’re going to Mars today via the words of one of the “Big Three*,” Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sands of Mars. Clarke said “I have a special fondness for Sands, as it was my first full-length novel.”...
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Going to Mars Word By Word via a Time Slip
Published in 1964, Martian Time Slip by Phillip K. Dick (PKD) is a dark, moody story of tricks of the mind: delusions, hallucinations, power, and a time slip. It is simply told, but dated by socially...
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Going to Mars, Word by Word with Man Plus
The next stop on our Going to Mars, Word-by-Word tour is the Nebula award winning novel, Man Plus by Fredrik Pohl, published in 1976. By the mid seventies Pohl had been writing and publishing stories...
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Going to Mars: Word-by-Word Bear Style
Nominated for the Nebula in 1986 and the Hugo and Locus in 1988, The Forge of God by Greg Bear is our next stop in this series “Going to Mars: Word by Word.” It is a grim, relentless examination of...
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Going to Mars Word by Word With Kim Stanley Robinson
The next stop in my blog series, Going to Mars Word by Word, is the Nebula Award winning novel Red Mars written by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Bantam House Science Fiction in 1993. It is the...
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Going to Mars Word-by-Word: the Landis Way
The next stop in our Going to Mars Word-by-Word tour is Mars Crossing by Geoffrey Landis. Published by Tor Books in 2000, this is a first novel by an experienced and award-winning short story author....
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If you’ve attended a science fiction convention, you’ve heard of Filk Songs. For those of you who haven’t heard of them, Filk songs are kind of hard to define. Even wikipedia has difficulty! For...
View ArticleGoing to Mars: Word-by-Word Bear Style
Nominated for the Nebula in 1986 and the Hugo and Locus in 1988, The Forge of God by Greg Bear is our next stop in this series Going to Mars: Word by Word. It is a grim, relentless examination of what...
View ArticleGoing to Mars Word by Word With Kim Stanley Robinson
The next stop in my blog series, Going to Mars Word by Word, is the Nebula Award-winning novel Red Mars written by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Bantam House Science Fiction in 1993. It is the...
View ArticleGoing to Mars Word-by-Word: the Landis Way
The next stop in our Going to Mars Word-by-Word tour is Mars Crossing by Geoffrey Landis. Published by Tor Books in 2000, this is the first novel by an experienced and award-winning short story author....
View ArticleExploring Mars Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Lynette M. Burrows reviews how NASA has been exploring Mars in preparation for a review of her popular Going to Mars Word by Word blog series. The post Exploring Mars Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow...
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