Fifteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R.Martin and multiple-award winning editor Gardner Dozois. This new anthology of fifteen all-original science fiction stories, edited by George R. R. Martin andGardner Dozois, celebrates the Golden Age of Science Fiction, an era filled with tales of interplanetarycolonization and derring-do.Before the advent of powerful telescopes and space probes, our solar system could be imagined asteeming with strange life-forms and ancient civilizations--by no means always friendly to the dominantspecies of Earth. And of all the planets orbiting that G-class star we call the Sun, none was so steeped inan aura of romantic decadence, thrilling mystery, and gung-ho adventure as Mars.