Introduction, the fascination of Mars / Patrick Moore -- Love affair / Ray Bradbury -- Myth of the Martian future / Eric Brown -- Martian theodicy / Paul Di Filippo -- Real story / Alastair Reynolds -- Flower children of Mars / Mike Resnick and M. Shayne Bell -- Out of the blue, into the red / James Lovegrove -- Mom, the Martians, and me / Scott Edelman -- Old cosmonaut and the construction worker dream of Mars / Ian McDonald -- Walk across Mars / Allen Steele -- Martian autumn / Stephen Baxter -- Shields of Mars / Gene Wolfe -- Under Mars / Paul McAuley -- War of the worldviews / James Morrow -- Near earth object / Brian Aldiss -- Me after the rock / Patrick O'Leary -- Lost sorceress of the silent citadel / Michael Moorcock -- Author's biographies.