Introduction: Red planet blues / by George R.R. Martin --
Martian blood / by Allen M. Steele --
The ugly duckling / by Matthew Hughes --
The wreck of the Mars adventure / by David D. Levine --
Swords of Zar-Tu-Kan / by S.M. Stirling --
Shoals / by Mary Rosenblum --
In the tombs of the Martian kings / by Mike Resnick --
Out of scarlight / by Liz Williams --
The dead sea-bottom scrolls / by Howard Waldrop --
A man without honor / by James S.A. Corey --
Written in dust / by Melinda Snodgrass --
The lost canal / by Michael Moorcock --
The sunstone / by Phyllis Eisenstein --
King of the cheap romance / by Joe R. Lansdale --
Mariner / by Chris Roberson --
The queen of night's aria / by Ian McDonald.
