Iris Wildthyme of Mars

Iris Wildthyme of Mars is the seventh Iris Wildthyme collection from Obverse Books.

Contents

 * Wandering Stars, by Ian Potter
 * Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Bad Weekend, by Daniel Tessier
 * Iris: Chess-Mistress of Mars, by Simon Bucher-Jones
 * Death on the Euphrates, by Selina Lock
 * And a Dog to Walk - Dale Smith
 * Talking with Spores, by Juliet Kemp
 * Doomed, by Richard Wright
 * The Last Martian, by Rachel Churcher
 * Lilac Mars, by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham
 * City of Dust, by Aditya Bidikar
 * The Calamari-Men Of Mare Cimmerium, by Blair Bidmead
 * Green Mars Blues, by Philip Purser-Hallard

Blurb
Everyone agrees about the colour, at least. The rest is up for grabs.

Is Mars a dead and sterile desert, or teeming with life?

Are Martians red, green or blue? Nubile and lithe, or monstrously tentacular?

Are they long gone, or waiting still? How do they feel about visitors?

Will we become the Martians? What kind of a world might we build on Mars? What myths, new or old, might we create there?

Oh – and how many different colours can you put in front of “Mars” to make a clever title?

These Marses are of course incompatible, contradictory, and in many cases quite impossible. And Iris Wildthyme has visited them all