Short stories tagged with Mars

Listing 14 stories.

The first man to walk on Mars recounts a trip with a strange alien companion across the planet to his disbelieving crew.

When a talented linguist makes contact with the Martian species and is invited into their inner circle, he uncovers a culturally rich civilization in danger of going extinct.

An older Indian man recounts his story of "alien" encounters on Mars during Saturday tea.

A journalist interviews a filmmaker at three different points in human history–2018, 2027, and 2039–to chart the discovery, retrieval, and visualization of a mysterious book found on Mars.

There are many stories from the days of the first refuges to Mars, but none of them are love stories.

When a young man signs up to fight in an intergalactic war in exchange for his citizenship, he finds himself inexorably drawn to the killing technology they’ve given him to murder the enemy.

On her missions to Mars, a microbiology botanist attempts to introduce natural life to the planet. However, it is not nature, but love, that begins to take root.

The world is at war: on one side, the corporate remains of human civilization. On the other, the aliens who have returned from Mars to live and regrow the Northern Hemisphere. In the midst of the war, one unnamed corporate solider realizes that their travel technology can be used to time-travel and takes that opportunity to try to save lives in the midst of this senseless violence.

An injured man lays on a long stretch of sand looking up at the stars; his mind races back to previous injuries and illnesses, but he can't seem to get a grip on where he is or why he's there. He soon realizes that he's a long way from home, in outer space.