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a martian romance
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

Kim Stanley Robinson sold his first story in 1976, and quickly
established himself as one of the most respected and critically
acclaimed writers of his generation. His story “Black Air” won the World
Fantasy Award in 1984, and his novella “The Blind Geometer” won the
Nebula Award in 1987. His first novel, The Wild Shore, was published in
1984, and was quickly followed up by other novels such as Icehenge,
The Memory of Whiteness, A Short, Sharp Shock, The Gold Coast, and
The Pacific Shore, and by collections such as The Planet on the Table,
Escape from Kathmandu, and Remaking History.

Robinson’s already-distinguished literary reputation took a
quantum-jump in the decade of the ‘90s, though, with the publication of
his acclaimed “Mars” trilogy —Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars;
Red Mars won a Nebula Award, both Green Mars and—Blue Mars won
Hugo Awards, and the trilogy has been widely recognized as the genre’s
most accomplished, detailed, sustained, and substantial look at the
colonization and terraforming of another world, rivaled only by Arthur C.
Clarke’s The Sands of Mars.

The “Mars Trilogy” will probably associate Robinson’s name
forever with the Red Planet, but it was not the first time he would explore
a fictional Mars; Robinson visited Mars in several stories of the ‘80s,
including the memorable novella “Green Mars,” which detailed the first
attempt to climb Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in the solar system.
The bittersweet and evocative story that follows is a direct sequel to
“Green Mars” —and at a tangent to the history of Martian settlement as it
ultimately developed in the “Mars Trilogy.” In it, he takes us to a bleak
and wintry Mars where the terraforming effort has gone disastrously
wrong, and a group of old friends set sail in an iceboat across the frozen
seas of the once-Red Planet, many years after their first epic journey,
hoping to touch the sky one last time. . .

Robinson’s latest books are the novel Antarctica, and a collection of
stories and poems set on his fictional Mars, The Martians. His stories
have appeared in our First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth
An-nual Collections. He lives with his family in California.
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lileen Monday hauls her backpack off the train’s steps and watches the train
glide down the piste and around the headland. Out the empty station and
she’s into the streets of Firewater, north Elysium. It’s deserted and dark, a
ghost town, everything shut down and boarded up, the residents moved out
and moved on. The only signs of life come from the westernmost dock: a