Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-435) and index
"A situation in many respects similar to our own" : Mars and the limits of analogyLowell and the canal controversy : Mars at the limits of vision -- "Different beyond the most bizarre imaginings of nightmare" : Mars in science fiction, 1880-1913 -- Lichens on Mars : planetary science and the limits of knowledge -- Mars at the limits of imagination : the dying planet from Burroughs to Dick -- The missions to Mars : Mariner, Viking, and the reinvention of a world -- Transforming Mars, transforming humankind : science fiction in the space age -- Mars at the turn of a new century -- Falling into theory : terraformation and eco-economics in Kim Stanley -- Robinson's Martian trilogy.
"A situation in many respects similar to our own" : Mars and the limits of analogy -- Lowell and the canal controversy : Mars at the limits of vision -- "Different beyond the most bizarre imaginings of nightmare" : Mars in science fiction, 1880-1913 -- Lichens on Mars : planetary science and the limits of knowledge -- Mars at the limits of imagination : the dying planet from Burroughs to Dick -- The missions to Mars : Mariner, Viking, and the reinvention of a world -- Transforming Mars, transforming "man" : science fiction in the space age -- Mars at the turn of a new century -- Falling into theory : terraformation and eco-economics in Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian trilogy