The Martian Way and Other Stories
 First edition | |
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Richard Shelton[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction Novellas |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1955 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 222 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
The Martian Way and Other Stories is a 1955 collection of four science fiction novellas previously published by Isaac Asimov in 1952 and 1954. Although single-author story collections generally sell poorly, The Martian Way and Other Stories did well enough that Doubleday science fiction editor Walter I. Bradbury was willing to publish a second collection, Earth Is Room Enough, in 1957.
Contents
- The Martian Way: Asimov's response to the McCarthy Era and an early exploration of terraforming Mars
- Youth: appeal against human physical anthropocentrism
- The Deep: appeal against human psychological anthropocentrism
- Sucker Bait: an assertion of the unity of knowledge
Reception
Groff Conklin praised the collection as "an excellent introduction to the style and to the imagination of one of science fiction's most important writers."[2]
References
- ↑ http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?43921
- ↑ "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1955, p.112
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 22. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
External links
- The Martian Way and Other Stories at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Possible Costs of Terraforming
- Research Paper: Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars
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