Recently a scientist wrote a book about a dead civilization on mars.

[Cainkane1]

Issak Asimov wrote "The Martian Chronicals" and H. G. Wells wrote "War of the Worlds". Recently a scientist has written a book about a dead civilization on mars. This fictional book was about the discovery of a Martian civilization destroyed by a hugh asteroid strike. The book serves two purposes. One it is a heads up as to what can happen on earth if we are hit with a big enough asteroid and two it was written to foster interest in Mars exploration.

Ok does anyone know the name of this book? I lost the link and I can't recall the authors name.

[Cainkane1]

Ray Bradury wrote "The Martian Chronicals". I apologise.

[madurobob]

"Mars Life" (http://us.macmillan.com/marslife)?

[Cainkane1]

Yeah. Thats it.

[IMST]

Looks interesting. Hold placed at my local library. Thanks for bringing this one up, Cain/Bob!

[madurobob]

I'm surprised I hadn't heard of Ben Bova before. looks like he's written some intriguing books in recent years. He might provide me with my annual on-call-during-Christmas-vacation-when-nothing-is-happening-at-work book

[Charlie Monoxide]

Looks interesting. Hold placed at my local library. Thanks for bringing this one up, Cain/Bob!I can always depend on JREF for good recommendations ....

Charlie (needs to read more) Monoxide

[NobbyNobbs]

I'm surprised I hadn't heard of Ben Bova before. looks like he's written some intriguing books in recent years. He might provide me with my annual on-call-during-Christmas-vacation-when-nothing-is-happening-at-work book

Ben Bova writes a lot of hard sci-fi. His book "Mars" is a great tale of what the first expedition might really be like, with a focus on the psychological interaction among the crew. He also wrote similar hard sci-fi about "Mercury", "Venus", "Jupiter", "Saturn", and "Titan".

[Cainkane1]

Looks interesting. Hold placed at my local library. Thanks for bringing this one up, Cain/Bob!
You're welcome.

[Swagomatic]

You might also enjoy Rainbow Mars (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/marsbow.htm)by Larry Niven. It's an amusing story and a sort of an homage to many of the classic Mars stories.

[thrombus29]

Rodger Zelazny's "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" Is a great short story with the dying martian civilization theme.

[rhtufts]

I recommend the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. They are three of my favorite books and an awesome realistic sci-fi look at the near future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

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Russell

doesn't have anything to do with a dead martin civilization though...

[SimonD]

Ben Bova writes a lot of hard sci-fi. His book "Mars" is a great tale of what the first expedition might really be like, with a focus on the psychological interaction among the crew. He also wrote similar hard sci-fi about "Mercury", "Venus", "Jupiter", "Saturn", and "Titan".

Ben Bova's books are a great read. He worked with Carl Sagon

[Jeff Corey]

Sagan?
Martian Time Slip is the ultimate Mars trip.
By the same author, Martian Pot Shard Collector
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/wp-content/b/head.jpg

[arthwollipot]

Ben Bova has also written non-fiction. His book The Story Of Light is one of the most unreadable pieces of science writing I've seen outside a textbook. I picked it up at Academic Remainders.

[NobbyNobbs]

No thread on Martian books (or, indeed, books about Mars) would be complete without a nod to Ray Bradbury and The Martian Chronicles.

[Kotatsu]

The best Martians are those of Olaf Stapledon's First and Last Men. They are single-celled organisms which have some kind of hive-mind, and they write down all their history and knowledge in large books which they keep in stone temples. Regardless of how and why they would do that, the best thing about the story is that this has absolutely no influence on the story, as none of the Men (as far as I can recall) ever visit Mars. The author thus describe an incomprehensible action taken by Martians unnecessarily, which is totally unimportant for the story. Wonderful.

[SimonD]

Sagan?
Martian Time Slip is the ultimate Mars trip.
By the same author, Martian Pot Shard Collector
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/wp-content/b/head.jpg

Yes Sagan.

My spelling sucks

[Cainkane1]

I bought this book second hand on ebay. If you want to buy the book then you can get it for just one third of the cost if you use ebay. My book looks new.

[kleinjahr]

If you like Bova, you may like Allen Steele as well. Orbital Decay, Rude Astronauts etc. Basically, construction workers in space. Sort of updated "Delilah and the Spacerigger" from Heinlein's "Green Hills of Earth".

[Cainkane1]

Looks interesting. Hold placed at my local library. Thanks for bringing this one up, Cain/Bob!
http://www.benbova.net/MARS-LIFE-Excerpt.pdf

[ZirconBlue]

No thread on Martian books (or, indeed, books about Mars) would be complete without a nod to Ray Bradbury and The Martian Chronicles.

I suppose that's why they were mentioned in the OP. ;)

[Jeff Corey]

The Martian Afternoon Sex Break, by Horselover Fat is reccommended by the National Librarians Association.