The Martians
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Overview:
- Title: The Martians
- Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: The Easton Press
- Pages: 336
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Martians
- Notes:
- "Number ___ of 1,200" on the signature/limitation page.
- Bound in genuine leather
- "Frontispiece illustration copyright © 1999 by Frank Kelly Freas"
- Month for publication year taken from the signed Certificate of Authenticity included in the book, which is dated Sept. 6, 1999.
- The short story 'Discovering Life' does not appear in this edition, but was subsequently inserted into the Bantam Spectra paperback edition as a new item (seventh in order) increasing the count of short fiction to 31 for that publication.
- There are two copies of the same uncredited double-spread map; first on the two pages before page 1 and after the table of contents and also after p. 336 at the end of the book.
- 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 lied on Mars, we'd spend more time outdoors" followed by a listing of the sixteen poems in the group.