Editing Mars trilogy (section)

=== ''The Martians''&nbsp;– Short stories ===
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| name          = The Martians
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| image         = The Martians.jpg <!--prefer 1st edition-->
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| author        = Kim Stanley Robinson
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| cover_artist  = [[Don Dixon (artist)|Don Dixon]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = Mars Trilogy
| genre         = Science fiction
| publisher     = Spectra/Bantam Dell/Random House
| release_date  = April 1999
| media_type    = Print (hardcover & paperback)
| pages         = 336 (hardcover)
| awards        = [[Locus Award]] for Best Collection (2000)<ref>[http://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2000 Locus Awards 2000] (from the ''Science Fiction Awards Database''. Accessed 2020-04-04.)</ref>
| isbn          = 0-553-80117-1
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''The Martians'' is a collection of [[short story|short stories]] that takes place over the timespan of the original trilogy of novels, as well as some stories that take place in an alternate version of the novels where the First Hundred's mission was one of exploration rather than colonization. Buried in the stories are several hints about the eventual fate of the Martian terraforming program.
* "Michel in Antarctica"
* "Exploring Fossil Canyon" (originally published in ''[[Universe (anthology series)|Universe 12]]'', 1982)
* "The Archaea Plot"
* "The Way the Land Spoke to Us"
* "Maya and Desmond"
* "Four Teleological Trails"
* "Coyote Makes Trouble"
* "Michel in Provence"
* "Green Mars" (originally published in ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]'' 1985)
* "Discovering Life" (also in ''Vinland the Dream'')
* "Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars" (subsequently anthologized)
* "Salt and Fresh"
* "The Constitution of Mars"
* "Some Work Notes and Commentary on the Constitution by Charlotte Dorsa Brevia"
* "Jackie on Zo"
* "Keeping the Flame"
* "Saving Noctis Dam"
* "Big Man in Love"
* "An Argument for the Deployment of All Safe Terraforming Technologies"
* "Selected Abstracts from ''The Journal of Areological Studies''"
* "Odessa"
* "Sexual Dimorphism" (Originally in: ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]'', June 1999 and subsequently anthologized, including {{cite book |title=[[Year's Best SF 5]] |date=2000 |publisher=Harper Collins |editor-first=David G. |editor-last=Hartwell |editor-link=David G. Hartwell |isbn=0-06-102054-0}}; {{cite book |title=The Hard SF Renaissance |date=2002 |publisher=Tom Doherty Associates |editor1-first=Kathryn |editor1-last=Cramer |editor1-link=Kathryn Cramer |editor2-first=David G. |editor2-last=Hartwell |isbn=0-312-87635-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/hardsfrenaissanc0000unse }}; and {{cite book |title=A Science Fiction Omnibus |date=2007 |publisher=Penguin UK |editor-first=Brian |editor-last=Aldiss |editor-link=Brian Aldiss |isbn=978-0-14-118892-8}} Nominated for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]], which celebrates [[gender]]-bending science fiction.)
* "Enough Is as Good as a Feast" (the title phrase appears often in the ''Science in the Capital'' series)
* "What Matters"
* "Coyote Remembers"
* "Sax Moments"
* "A Martian Romance" (originally published in ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]'', October–November 1999, subsequently anthologized)
* ""If Wang Wei Lived on Mars and Other Poems"" inc "The Names of the Canals", "The Soundtrack" 
* "Purple Mars"