mars and the imagination
Mars and the Imagination is a unique combination of close to 1,000 individual works of science and science fiction about Mars. The scientific works include rare, first, and early edition documents by scientists including Johannes Kepler, Christian Huygens, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Percival Lowell.
The science fiction, inspired by speculation in the late 1800s that aliens had built a network of canals on Mars, includes virtually unobtainable original magazine serializations by authors such as H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke.
Mars and the Imagination offers a beautiful, hands-on exploration of humanity’s longstanding fascination with Mars at a time when scientific interest in the planet is unprecedented. NASA has declared Mars its “horizon goal for human exploration” and hopes to send astronauts to the planet in the early 2030s, while SpaceX has already built a reusable spacecraft, Starship, with the goal of ferrying humans to and from the Red Planet.
We are aware of no other Mars collection that contains anywhere near as complete a collection of both Mars science and fiction, and no extensive collection of Mars fiction in both its original pulp and stand-alone printings.
Beyond its scholarly importance, the collection is remarkably displayable, with custom red bindings, clamshell boxes featuring Mars imagery, and vibrant pulp magazines that create a striking and cohesive visual presentation.
This collection is available for sale as part of the larger series: Machines, Minds, and the Cosmos.
A full list of collection documents is available upon request.
