The Martians

Overview:

• Title: The Martians
• Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
• Year: 1999
• ISBN-10: 0553801171
• Publisher: Bantam Spectra
• Price: $24.95
• Pages: 336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: The Martians
• Notes:
  • "A Bantam Spectra Book / September 1999" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: "BVG 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
  • Price "IN US $24.95 (over) IN CANADA $35.95" printed on the inside front flap of the dustjacket.
  • Complete Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data printed on the copyright page including the ISBN (0-553-80117-1) and LCCN (99-13115).
  • "Book design by Casey Hampton" stated on the copyright page.
  • "Jacket illustration © Don Dixon (over) Jacket design by Jamie S. Warren Youll" on the back inside flap of the dustjacket.
  • The short story "Discovering Life" does not appear in this Bantam Spectra hardcover edition, but was subsequently added to the Bantam Spectra paperback edition as a new item (seventh in order).
  • There is an uncredited double-spread map on the two pages after the contents pages and before the first story.
  • The sixteen poems (pages 302-331) are presented under the group title "If Wang Wei Lived on Mars and Other Poems". This is how the group is identified in the book's table of contents and on the running header throughout the pages of the section. None of the poems are listed in the book's table of contents, but there is a listing for this section on pages 300 and 301 giving the title of the group along with the italicized introductory line: "If Wang Wei lived on Mars, we'd spend more time outdoors" followed by a listing of the sixteen poems in the group.