{"id":1866,"date":"2013-02-13T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2017-09-08T21:32:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:32:04","slug":"october-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2013\/02\/13\/october-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"October on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music: Those Were the Days<\/b><br \/>Gardner Dozois and I have just learned that Bantam has scheduled our all-original retro-SF anthology OLD MARS for release on October 8 of this year.  The anthology will feature fifteen original, never-before-published short stories and novelettes about Mars, story notes and author intros by Gardner, and an introduction by yours truly. <\/p>\n<p>The setting will NOT be the real (but somewhat boring) post-Mariner Mars, but rather the Mars thatwe all loved as kids, the one with the canals and the dead cities and the myriad marvelous Martians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grrm.livejournal.com\/pics\/catalog\/460\/159119\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/159119_300.jpg\" alt=\"Old Mars cvr rev\" title=\"Old Mars cvr rev\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>((Gotta love that retro rocket ship.  I sure do)).<\/p>\n<p> Here&#8217;s the lineup of stories and contributors:<\/p>\n<p>RED PLANET BLUES (Introduction) by George R.R. Martin<br \/>MARTIAN BLOOD, by Allen M. Steele<br \/>THE UGLY DUCKLING, by Matthew Hughes<br \/>THE WRECK OF THE MARS ADVENTURE, by David D. Levine<br \/>SWORDS OF ZAR-TU-KAN, by S.M. Stirling<br \/>SHOALS, by Mary Rosenblum<br \/>IN THE TOMBS OF THE MARTIAN KINGS, by Mike Resnick<br \/>OUT OF SCARLIGHT, by Liz Williams<br \/>THE DEAD SEA-BOTTOM SCROLLS, by Howard Waldrop<br \/>A MAN WITHOUT HONOR, by James S.A. Corey<br \/>WRITTEN IN DUST, by Melinda Snodgrass<br \/>THE LOST CANAL, by Michael Moorcock<br \/>THE SUNSTONE, by Phyllis Eisenstein<br \/>KING OF THE CHEAP ROMANCE, by Joe R. Lansdale<br \/>MARINER, by Chris Roberson<br \/>THE QUEEN OF NIGHT&#8217;S ARIA, by Ian McDonald<br \/>!\u0192<br \/>Gargoo and I had a lot of fun putting this one together, and I hope you folks will have as much fun reading it.  So circle October 8 on your calendars.  Old Mars is lovely in the fall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music: Those Were the DaysGardner Dozois and I have just learned that Bantam has scheduled our all-original retro-SF anthology OLD MARS for release on October 8 of this year. The anthology will feature fifteen original, never-before-published short stories and novelettes about Mars, story notes and author intros by Gardner, and an introduction by yours truly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,100,12],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}