A review by otherwyrld
Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet by Mike Ashley

4.0

Another excellent collection of short stories that examines the romantic ideal of a Mars that never really existed. Pretty much all of the stories are solid, with a couple of excellent tales. Many are tragic and reflect on the loss of a Martian civilization or of the pioneer humans who sacrifice so much to live on the Red Planet.

I was hoping for a companion book on Venus to complement this one and the Moon stories, but alas couldn't find one. Perhaps there are too few really good Venusian tales to fill a book, and I would rather have that than a collection of mediocre stories.