New Mars

For the most part, the non-fiction books New Mars reviews have a general interest ‘coffee table’ format. Mapping Mars by Oliver Morton represents a different type of book - no, it isn’t about maps of Mars - that explores the place that Mars inhabits in our culture, both in the past and the present. While not ignoring the great role that science has had in shaping our perceptions of Mars, it covers the influence made by artists, philosophers and poets. Stuart Atkinson reviews Mapping Mars and investigates whether it has anything truly original to offer to the over-saturated Mars non-fiction field.

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Filed under: Reviews on August 20th, 2002 | 2 Comments »

Lately, Mars has been the focus of many attractive coffee-table books with generous illustrations and, for the most part, absolutely useless content. Can MARS by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest do any better? Stuart Atkinson investigates…

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Filed under: Reviews on January 2nd, 2002 | 3 Comments »

Adrian Hon reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s collection of short stories, The Martians. This anthology serves as a wonderful companion to his award-winning Mars trilogy and also has a number of standalone short stories.

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Filed under: Reviews on December 30th, 2001 | 8 Comments »