Should Hirst be First?

In this Perspective, Stuart Atkinson takes issue with Damien Hirst’s spot painting being the first artwork to land on another planet via the Beagle 2 Mars Lander.

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Martian Landscape Poems

Written by Richard Poss. Part of the Mars Tales issue.

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Stars in the Sky

Adrian Hon presents a bleak view of the future colonization of Mars in this short story; no matter how far we travel, we will always be burdened by the legacy of our past. Part of the Mars Tales issue.

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Letter from Home

A short story by Stuart Atkinson. In 2062, a young girl living on Mars writes to her father about her new job with Mars Heritage, a group which preserves and protects spaceprobes sent from Earth in the decades before. Part of the Mars Tales issue.

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Cultural Differences

A short story by Ruth Waterton about two enduring obsession of Mars Society fanatics: the red planet, and chocolate. Part of the Mars Tales issue.

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Killer B’s: An exploration into Martian ‘B’ Scifi

Ryder W. Miller surveys over a hundred years of Martian science fiction, from War of the Worlds to The Martians. Part of the Mars Tales issue.

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Like Nothing Else the World has Seen

New Mars interviews award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson on the futility of metaphors and the promise of Mars.

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James Cameron Talks Mars

The Standing Room Only event of the Mars Society’s 2nd Annual Convention was without a doubt filmmaker James Cameron’s address to an audience of 700+. How do you top Titanic? What’s the king of the world aiming for next? Mars.

While Cameron talked at length about his two current Mars projects, he also spoke of his own feelings toward human Mars exploration. This article includes a few excerpts from his speech.

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A Return to Utopia?

Julian A. Hiscox, Howell G. M. Edwards and David Wynn-Williams present a look at the search for life on Mars and throughout the Solar System and consider the range of environments in which life can survive.

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Mars Express: It’s Art, Jim…

On the United Kingdom’s first interplanetary space probe will be riding the first artwork that will travel to another world. Stuart Atkinson finds out more about the extraordinary spot painting by Damien Hirst that will be hitching a ride on the Beagle 2 lander.

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