Rainbow Mars

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Rainbow Mars
First edition cover
Author	Larry Niven
Cover artist	Bob Eggleton
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction short story collection and novel
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	1999
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	316 (hardcover)
ISBN	0-312-86777-8
OCLC	39887074
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3564.I9 R3 1999

Rainbow Mars is a science fiction short story collection by Larry Niven. It includes the five previously published Svetz stories and the eponymous main title novella, in which humans from Earth visit Mars and find it populated by the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, C. S. Lewis, H. G. Wells, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. This means that Mars is inhabited by several different intelligent species and cultures. The story began as a collaboration with Terry Pratchett; a number of his ideas remain in the final draft, mainly the use of Yggdrasil.

The book collects a series of short stories by Niven, including "The Flight of the Horse", in which he introduced the Temporal Research Institute. The premise of the novel is that the old Secretary-General has recently died; his heir is more interested in extraterrestrials than the Earth beasts who went extinct due to excess pollution. This resulted in the Temporal Institute attempting to invent space flight, and several of its agents visiting Mars.

The starting temporal point is the year "+1108 Atomic Era," corresponding to 3053 AD in the Gregorian Calendar. The main character is Agent Hanville Svetz, a brave and resourceful man. Neither he nor any of his colleagues ever realize that all his expeditions have actually been to parallel universes, and the animals he retrieves are all creatures from fiction, such as Moby-Dick, and from mythology, such as Quetzalcoatl. The idea that he may be traveling into realms of fantasy does occur to Svetz a couple of times, but the notion is rejected by others.

When the expedition arrives on Mars, the year is "-550 Atomic Era," corresponding to 1395 AD/CE.

External links

Annotations of the stories

Larry Niven

Novels
Short-story collections

Known Space

World of Ptavvs (1966) A Gift from Earth (1968) Neutron Star (1968 collection) The Shape of Space (1969 collection) Protector (1973) Tales of Known Space (1975 collection) Flatlander (1976 collection, originally The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton) The Patchwork Girl (1986) Crashlander (1994 omnibus)

Ringworld	Ringworld (1970) The Ringworld Engineers (1979) Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (1994, with Kevin Stein) The Ringworld Throne (1996) Ringworld's Children (2004)

Man-Kzin Wars¹	Man-Kzin Wars (1988) Man-Kzin Wars II (1989) Man-Kzin Wars III (1990) Man-Kzin Wars IV (1991) Man-Kzin Wars V (1992) Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994) Man-Kzin Wars VII (1995) Man-Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names (1998) Man-Kzin Wars IX (2002) Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (2003) Man-Kzin Wars XI (2005) Destiny's Forge (2007 novel) Man-Kzin Wars XII (2009) Man-Kzin Wars XIII (2012)

Fleet of Worlds²	Fleet of Worlds (2007) Juggler of Worlds (2008) Destroyer of Worlds (2009) Betrayer of Worlds (2010) Fate of Worlds (2012)

The Magic Goes
Away

The Warlock	Not Long before the End (1969) What Good Is a Glass Dagger? (1972) The Magic Goes Away (1978) The Magic May Return (1981 collection) More Magic (1984) The Time of the Warlock (1984)

Golden Road³	The Burning City (2000) Burning Tower (2005) Burning Mountain (in progress)

Written with
Jerry Pournelle

Inferno (1976) Lucifer's Hammer (1977) Oath of Fealty (1982) Footfall (1985) Escape from Hell (2009 sequel to Inferno)

Moties⁴	The Mote in God's Eye (1974) The Gripping Hand (1993, UK title The Moat around Murcheson's Eye) Outies (2010, by J. R. Pournelle)

Heorot^{3, 5}	The Legacy of Heorot (1987) Beowulf's Children (1995, UK title The Dragons of Heorot) Destiny's Road (1997, by Niven alone)

Dream Park⁵

Dream Park (1981)
The Barsoom Project (1989)
The California Voodoo Game (1992, UK title The Voodoo Game)
The Descent of Anansi (1982)
Achilles' Choice (1991)
Saturn's Race (2001)
The Moon Maze Game (2011)

The State

Other co-authored
novels

The Flying Sorcerers (1971, with David Gerrold)
Berserker Base (1984, with Poul Anderson / Edward Bryant / Stephen R. Donaldson / Fred Saberhagen / Connie Willis / Roger Zelazny)
Fallen Angels (1991, with Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn)
Rainbow Mars (1999, initially with Terry Pratchett)
Building Harlequin's Moon (2005, with Brenda Cooper)

Other collections

All the Myriad Ways (1971)
The Flight of the Horse (1973)
Inconstant Moon (1973)
A Hole in Space (1974)
Convergent Series (1979)
Niven's Laws (1984)
Limits (1985)
N-Space (1990)
Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
Bridging the Galaxies (1993)
Scatterbrain (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1 (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 2 (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 3 (2003)
The Draco Tavern (2006)
Stars and Gods (2010)
The Best of Larry Niven (2010)

Adapted as comics

Death by Ecstasy (1991)
Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (1992, by John Byrne)
The Magic Goes Away (by Jan Duursema)
"Not Long before the End" (by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcazar)
"All the Myriad Ways" (by Howard Chaykin)

¹ Collections by Niven or others. ² With Edward M. Lerner. ³ With Jerry Pournelle. ⁴ Set in the CoDominium series. ⁵ With Steven Barnes.

Selected short stories and novellas

"At the Core" "Bordered in Black" "The Borderland of Sol" "Death by Ecstasy" "The Defenseless Dead" "Flash Crowd" "Flatlander" "Grendel" "The Handicapped" "The Hole Man" "Inconstant Moon" "The Jigsaw Man" "The Magic Goes Away" "Neutron Star" "Procrustes" "The Return of William Proxmire" "The Soft Weapon"

Essays

Niven's laws "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel"

Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom

Characters

Earthlings	John Carter Ulysses Paxton

Martians	Dejah Thoris Tars Tarkas Thuvia of Ptarth Ras Thavas Tan Hadron Vor Daj Gahan of Gathol

Martian descendants	Carthoris Tara of Helium Llana of Gathol

Literature series

A Princess of Mars
The Gods of Mars
The Warlord of Mars
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars
The Master Mind of Mars
A Fighting Man of Mars
Swords of Mars
Synthetic Men of Mars
Llana of Gathol
John Carter of Mars
- John Carter and the Giant of Mars
- Skeleton Men of Jupiter

Films

Princess of Mars
John Carter

Games

Warriors of Mars
Jetan

Culture

Other

John Carter, Warlord of Mars (comics)
The Number of the Beast (novel)
"Sir Harold of Zodanga" (short story)
"Mars: The Home Front" (short story)
Rainbow Mars (short story collection)

v t e C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy

Books	Out of the Silent Planet (1938) Perelandra (1943) That Hideous Strength (1945) The Dark Tower (manuscript) (1977)

Characters	Elwin Ransom Professor Weston Richard Devine

Universe	University of Edgestow

Other	Rainbow Mars

H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds

Related texts: "The Crystal Egg"
Star-Begotten

Concepts

Derivative
works

Novels	Fighters from Mars Edison's Conquest of Mars Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds The Space Machine War of the Worlds: New Millennium The Martian War

Radio	The War of the Worlds (1938) The War of the Worlds (1968)

Films	The War of the Worlds (1953) The Night That Panicked America The War of the Worlds: Next Century H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005) H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005) War of the Worlds (2005) War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave War of the Worlds: Goliath

Comics	Earth-691 Killraven Superman: War of the Worlds The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II Scarlet Traces H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds

Music	Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds "Forever Autumn" Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation

Television	War of the Worlds episodes Mor-Tax Mor-Taxans

Video games	War of the Worlds (1982) The War of the Worlds (1984) Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998) Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1999)

Short fiction	War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches "Mars: The Home Front" "To Mars and Providence" Rainbow Mars

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