List of books set on Mars
There are a number of books set on Mars. For other art forms see the Art page.
| Title | Author | Year | Series and number | Summary | Settlement information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The War of the Worlds | H.G Wells | 1897 | Martians invade the Earth and seem unstoppable, until the are beaten by the smallest of foes. | ||
| A Princess of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1912 | Martian Tales #1 | A series of 10 novels with the main Character, John Carter and his adventures on Mars, or Barsoom in the local language. | Historical interest |
| The Gods of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1913 | Martian Tales #2 | ||
| The Warlord of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1913 | Martian Tales #3 | ||
| Thuvia, Maid of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1916 | Martian Tales #4 | ||
| The Chessmen of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1922 | Martian Tales #5 | ||
| The Master Mind of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1927 | Martian Tales #6 | ||
| A Fighting Man of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1930 | Martian Tales #7 | ||
| Swords of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1934 | Martian Tales #8 | ||
| Synthetic Men of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1938 | Martian Tales #9 | ||
| Llana of Gathol | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1941 | Martian Tales #10 | ||
| John Carter of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1941 | Martian Tales #11 | ||
| The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | 1950 | Famous group of short stories set on Mars, exploration of an ancient civilisation. | Historical interest | |
| The Sands of Mars | Arthur C. Clarke | 1951 | |||
| Podkayne of Mars | Robert A. Heinlein | 1963 | |||
| Warriors of Mars | Edward P. Bradbury | 1965 | Michael Kane #1 | ||
| Blades of Mars | Edward P. Bradbury | 1965 | Michael Kane #2 | ||
| Barbarians of Mars | Edward P. Bradbury | 1966 | Michael Kane #3 | ||
| We Can Remember It For You Wholesale | Phillip K. Dick | 1966 | Inspiration for the Total Recall movies. | ||
| Welcome to Mars | James Blish | 1967 | |||
| Man Plus | Frederik Pohl | 1976 | |||
| The Greening of Mars | James Lovelock and Michael Allaby | 1984 | |||
| Mars | Ben Bova | 1992 | |||
| Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | 1992 | Mars Trilogy #1 | Complete development of Mars terraformation. Best series on the subject, solid factual base. | |
| Green Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | 1992 | Mars Trilogy #2 | ||
| Red Dust | Paul J. McAuley | 1993 | |||
| Moving Mars | Greg Bear | 1994 | |||
| Blue Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | 1996 | Mars Trilogy #3 | ||
| The Martians | Kim Stanley Robinson | 1999 | |||
| White Mars | Brian Aldiss with Roger Penrose | 1999 | |||
| The Road to Mars | Eric Idle | 1999 | |||
| The Martian Race | Gregory Benford | 2000 | |||
| The Stone Canal | Ken Macleod | 2001 | The Fall Revolution #2 | ||
| First Landing | Robert Zubrin | 2001 | |||
| Red Thunder | Jon Varley | 2003 | Thunder and Lightning #1 | ||
| The Mars Run | Chris Gerrib | 2006 | |||
| Red Lightning | Jon Varley | 2006 | Thunder and Lightning #2 | ||
| Rolling Thunder | Jon Varley | 2008 | Thunder and Lightning #3 | ||
| The Martian | Andrew Weir | 2012 | Good description of an early Martian exploration base. Famous use of potatoes. | ||
| Red Planet Blues | Robert J. Sawyer | 2013 | |||
| Dark Lightning | Jon Varley | 2014 | Thunder and Lightning #4 | ||
| Red Planet | Robert A. Heinlein | 1949 | Two teenage boys, sent away to boarding school in the big city on Mars, need to save their hometown and their Martian friend from the nefarious forces of evil. | ||
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | 1961 | A human born on Mars and raised by Martians comes to Earth to explore its culture. His interactions with humans and his new ideas inevitably change the Earth society. | ||
| Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut | 1959 | |||
| Aelita | Aleksey Tolstoy | 1923 | Two Russian engineers arrive on Mars to discover that it is populated by advanced civilisation, ruled by engineers. The Martian princess Aelita reveals that the planet is facing environmental catastrophe. After an uprising is crashed the two engineers are forced to escape and make it back to Earth. | ||
| Before Mars | Emma Newman | 2018 |
