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Review of A. Bertram Chandler’s 1965 novel The Alternate Martians
A.V. Club (not to be confused with the Italian football club A.S. Roma) recently posted an interesting review of The Alternate Martians (1965), a paperback original penned by Australian science fiction...
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Black Hole Sun - new YA SF novel written by David Macinnis Gill
Black Hole Sun, a new Young Adult science fiction novel written by American author David Macinnis Gill and published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of behemoth HarperCollins, is scheduled to be...
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The Mars of Leigh Brackett depicted through Russian endpaper art
Check out the detail on these two beautiful pieces of endpaper art that I raided from an early 1990’s Russian omnibus comprised of three of American science fiction author Leigh Brackett’s classic...
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Conservative think tank has greater financial transparency than EFF
Despite a board of directors that includes prominent (but aging) revolutionaries, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a San Francisco-based non-profit organization founded in 1990 that defends...
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Sale: RAH’s 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land owned by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Dragon’s Head Books of Portland, Oregon has an interesting copy of Robert A. Heinlein’s Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) for sale over at AbeBooks. It’s a...
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Nonfiction book Packing for Mars lands on NYT best sellers list
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Norton 2010), a new nonfiction book by the sexy popular science writer Mary Roach is currently resting at #8 on The New York Times hardcover...
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Commodities of Martian Rails: Machinery
Martian Rails (2009), the crayon board game manufactured by Mayfair Games about railroading on the Red Planet in which players build tracks and haul freight, has a long list of cool commodities that...
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The Forge of Mars – 2002 hard SF novel by Bruce Balfour
The Forge of Mars (2002), a hard science fiction novel by former NASA employee and writer Bruce Balfour.Paperback original (New York: Ace Books, 2002) $6.99. Cover art by Jean Pierre Targete. The blurb...
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Retro review: Siskel & Ebert discuss 1996 Sci-Fi spoof Mars Attacks!
Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert review Mars Attacks! (1996), director Tim Burton's science fiction spoof based on the 1962 Topps trading cards. Starring Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette...
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New gender switch short story: “Amazon Arena of Mars” by Tara Loughead
Jekkara Press, the home of The Adventures of Bulays & Ghaavn and The Gender Switch Adventures, has an interesting, free short story titled “Amazon Arena of Mars” (2010). Written by Tara Loughead...
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Swedish art: Marsmänniska glass vase
There’s a beautiful Graal glass vase by Swedish artist Eva Englund (1937-1998) for sale on eBay. Created in 1988, the piece is called "Marsmanniska" ("Martian"). It’s about 8 inches high and 25 inches...
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Dark Horse to reprint John Carter of Mars comics from 1970's Weird Worlds and...
Dark Horse Comics is collecting and reprinting the John Carter of Mars stories that were originally published in the 1970's comic books Weird Worlds #1-#7 and Tarzan #207-#209. The forthcoming volume,...
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Wanted: Info on Brain W. Aldiss’ new SF story “Finches of War”
Late last month, ThisIsOxfordshire.com reported that award-winning British science fiction author and artist Brian W. Aldiss has written a new science fiction short story set on Mars. It’s called...
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Cover art: Podkayne of Mars
Check out this Flickr gallery of cover art portraying Podkayne of Mars, the title character in Robert A. Heinlein’s classic 1963 juvenile novel. More than 25 pieces of beautiful artwork, including...
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Top 10 Marooned posts for August 2010
The Top 10 Marooned posts for August 2010:1. Gallery of b&w illustrations from Edison’s Conquest of Mars (1898, 1947)2. “They All Had Grandfathers” a previously unpublished Martian tale by Ray...
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Five Mars SF&F guys who committed suicide
Guess who?1. James Ashmore Creelman (1894-1941) Hollywood film writer whose credits include King Kong (1933) and The Journey to Mars (1936).2. Thomas Disch (1940-2008) Science fiction author and poet...
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Rogue archivist and other in$ider$ at Public.Resource.Org earn ea$y ca$h
Thanks to Canadian science fiction author and blogger Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing, I learned all about “10 Rules for Radicals” by rogue archivist Carl Malamud. Apparently, it’s “a must-read for anyone...
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“The First-Born” -- new health sciences short story by Brian W. Aldiss
Here’s another new short story written by award-winning British science fiction author Brian W. Aldiss. It’s titled “The First-Born” and it was published earlier this summer in Gateways (Tor, 2010) ,...
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Events of Martian Rails: Green Mars!
Martian Rails (2009), the crayon board game manufactured by Mayfair Games about railroading on the Red Planet in which players build tracks and haul freight, has a long list of events to which players...
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1931 letter to Astounding Stories: "Aren't there any tall girls in your...
Dear Editor:Gr-r-r, now I am mad! I do wish that people who want a regular instruction book of a magazine would kindly refrain from spending their valuable pennies on ours.And if Mr. Johnston of Newark...
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Reading Barsoom & Llana Jane Burroughs
If you're a fan of pulp author Edgar Rice Burroughs and his fictional red planet Barsoom, here are some recent links worth checking out. The science fiction blog io9 posted a fascinating four-part...
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Doctor Who television special “The Waters of Mars” wins Hugo Award
BBC’s acclaimed Doctor Who television special “The Waters of Mars” (2009), which attracted millions of viewers in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, just won the prestigious Hugo...
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Winner of The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition giveaway!
Congratulations to Terri L. of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who is the proud new owner of my slightly-used copy of the signed, limited edition, 750-page The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition...
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Revamped blog Marooned has new URL
I've revamped my blog in hopes of providing a more enjoyable experience for all. A different template, larger images, simplified tags and more tools for sharing posts with others. The name of the blog...
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