Contents 1 • Live from the Mars Hotel • [Near Space] • (1988) • shortstory by Allen Steele 21 • The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica • (1986) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss 39 • Windwagon Smith and the Martians • (1989) • shortstory by Lawrence Watt-Evans 55 • Retrovision • (1988) • shortstory by Robert Frazier 69 • The Great Martian Railroad Race • (1988) • shortstory by Eric Vinicoff 87 • All the Beer on Mars • (1989) • shortstory by Gregory Benford 107 • The Catharine Wheel • (1984) • novelette by Ian McDonald (aka The Catharine Wheel (Our Lady of Tharsis)) 129 • Mars Needs Beatniks • (1984) • shortstory by George Alec Effinger 145 • Green Mars • (1985) • novella by Kim Stanley Robinson