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PCD Since: May, 2021
24th Jun, 2022 05:48:55 PM

Did you read the Mars robot story in an anthology magazine like Asimov's or Fantasy and Science Fcition ? Or in a book of stories?

There is a series of novels about people terraform8ng Mars to be a colony for humans: Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars. They're novels, but often authors will send a portion of their book to a magazine to be published in an issue. Just a guess.

"You want weapons?! We're in a Library! BOOKS! The best weapons in the universe!" — The Doctor
sRAMrelevrat Since: Jun, 2021
25th Jun, 2022 04:59:34 AM

I don't think it's Asimov.

The story was actually an "analyze this story" question in an ELA test I took, but it was so absurdly unlike any story I've ever seen used for a test that it set my plagiarism senses tingling. It was very blatantly a hard sci-fi short story that had almost all of the "big science words" edited out. I find it unlikely that they'd steal such a well-known book.

In style it seemed very similar to the short fiction of Stephen Baxter, but it doesn't fit in with either the Xeelee Sequence or Manifold universes. It also isn't in Traces, which as far as I can tell is his one collection of short stories that aren't set in any preexisting universe.

Edited by sRAMrelevrat
PCD Since: May, 2021
25th Jun, 2022 09:30:09 PM

To clarify, I meant the science-fiction *magazine* called "Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", not a *book* by Isaac Asimov. Never mind, it probably doesn't matter, anyway.

"You want weapons?! We're in a Library! BOOKS! The best weapons in the universe!" — The Doctor
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