| "Green Mars" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Country | USA |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| Publication type | Periodical |
| Media type | |
| Publication date | September 1985 |
"Green Mars" is a science fiction novella by the American writer Kim Stanley Robinson, first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in September 1985, eight years before his novel of the same name.[1]
The author later said that he wrote the story "mainly to stake a claim – at least a moral claim – on the name. I thought Green Mars was such a good name, such an obvious name."[2] The story describes an expedition climbing Olympus Mons on Mars. It is set in a different fictional universe from that of the novel—it has characters which also appear in the author's short works "Exploring Fossil Canyon" (1982) and "A Martian Romance" (1999).[2][3]
At the time the story was written, the most recent missions to Mars were Viking 1 and Viking 2 which reached the planet in the summer of 1976.