I liked Donna Shirley within seconds of speaking to her on the phone. When I asked her what how her “title” should read on the air, she jokingly suggested “Martian.”
The Former Director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Project, Donna has developed a love affair with the Red Planet. Her conversations are peppered with references to various novels and non-fiction works on Mars. She herself wrote an autobiography about her quest for the skies called Managing Martians.
We asked Donna to put together a reading list of great books on Mars. For those of you who share her love of Mars or looking forward to one day possibly living there, enjoy!
Fiction
Moving Mars by Greg Bear.
The Martian Race by Greg Benford
Mars and Return to Mars by Ben Bova
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Sands of Mars and The Snows of Olympus by Arthur C. Clarke
Mars Underground by William Hartmann
Mars Crossing by Geoffrey Landis
Mars as the Abode of Life by Percival Lowell
Red Mars or Green Mars or Blue Mars and The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Case for Mars by Bob Zubrin
Postcards from Mars by Jim Bell
Voyage to Mars by Laurence Bergreen
The Surface of Mars and Water on Mars (Technical) by Michael Carr
A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet by Andrew Chalkin
On Mars 1958-1978 by Edward and Linda Ezell
To Utopia and Back by Norman Horowitz
Lowell and Mars by William Hart
Mars – Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet by Paul Raeburn and Matthew Golombek
The Rock from Mars by Kathy Sawyer
The Planet Mars by William Sheehan
Managing Martians by Donna Shirley
Destination Mars (Children’s Book) by Seymour Simon
Roving Mars: Spirit,
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