Results of New Scientist Magazine Sci-Fi Book Poll

New Scientist magazine’s “The Future of the Genre,” a special online feature devoted to science fiction, shines a ray of light on Mars. First, Martian Sci-Fi authors Stephen Baxter and Kim Stanley Robinson are two of the six authors who discuss the future of the science fiction genre. Second, Robinson's rainbow of Mars novels from the 1990s almost made the official Top 3 list of fan's all-time favorite science fiction books. And third, of the almost 700 fans who voted for their favorite book, these Mars-related works were mentioned:

• Voyage (1996), by Stephen Baxter

• Mars (2000), by Ben Bova

• The Martian Chronicles (1950), by Ray Bradbury

• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), by Philip K. Dick

• Semper Mars (1998), by Ian Douglas

• Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), by Robert A. Heinlein

• Mars Crossing (2000), by Geoffrey A. Landis

• Out of the Silent Planet (1938), by C. S. Lewis

• Mars trilogy (1992-1996), by Kim Stanley Robinson

• Men, Martians and Machines (1955), by Eric Frank Russell

• Ilium (2003), by Dan Simmons

• Last and First Men (1930), by Olaf Stapledon

• The Sirens of Titan (1959), by Kurt Vonnegut

• “A Martian Odyssey,” (1934), short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum

• The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells

Note: The magazine cover pictured above has nothing to do with the book poll.