Fifteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award winning editor Gardner Dozois

Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars. Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. Heinlein’s Red Planet . These and so many more inspired generations of readers with a sense that science fiction’s greatest wonders did not necessarily lie far in the future or light-years across the galaxy but were to be found right now on a nearby world tantalizingly similar to our own—a red planet that burned like an ember in our night sky . . . and in our imaginations.

This new anthology of fifteen all-original science fiction stories, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, celebrates the Golden Age of Science Fiction, an era filled with tales of interplanetary colonization and derring-do. Before the advent of powerful telescopes and space probes, our solar system could be imagined as teeming with strange life-forms and ancient civilizations—by no means always friendly to the dominant species of Earth. And of all the planets orbiting that G-class star we call the Sun, none was so steeped in an aura of romantic decadence, thrilling mystery, and gung-ho adventure as Mars.

Join such seminal contributors as Michael Moorcock, Mike Resnick, Joe R. Lansdale, S. M. Stirling, Mary Rosenblum, Ian McDonald, Liz Williams, James S. A. Corey, and others in this brilliant retro anthology that turns its back on the cold, all-but-airless Mars of the Mariner probes and instead embraces an older, more welcoming, more exotic Mars: a planet of ancient canals cutting through red deserts studded with the ruined cities of dying races.

FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY

James S. A. Corey • Phyllis Eisenstein • Matthew Hughes • Joe R. Lansdale • David D. Levine • Ian McDonald • Michael Moorcock • Mike Resnick • Chris Roberson • Mary Rosenblum • Melinda Snodgrass • Allen M. Steele • S. M. Stirling • Howard Waldrop • Liz Williams

And an Introduction by George R. R. Martin!

乔治.R.R.马丁,1948年出生于美国,世界级奇幻大师。其著名小说包括史诗奇幻经典之作“冰与火之歌”系列,《热夜之梦》《光逝》《风港》《图夫航行记》（均已由我社引进出版）等。迄今为止,他已获包括六尊雨果奖、两尊星云奖、两尊世界奇幻文学奖、一尊世界奇幻终身成就奖、一尊世界恐怖文学奖、十六尊轨迹奖在内的无数奖项。2011年,美国《时代周刊》将马丁评为“全世界最有影响力的一百位人物”之一,肯定了胖马丁在欧美文坛上的崇高地位。

加德纳·多佐伊斯,曾担任《阿西莫夫科幻小说》编辑近二十年,也是《年度最佳科幻》系列的编辑,凭此书他已赢得二十次轨迹奖年度最佳选集,成为迄今为止最成功的科幻编辑。此外,他还赢得了十五次雨果奖年度最佳编辑,并以自己的短篇作品赢得了两次星云奖及一次侧向奖。多佐伊斯最近的作品包括一本和乔治.R.R.马丁与丹尼尔· 亚伯拉罕合著的小说《猎人行》及选集《银河帝国》等。