Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, introduced yesterday a new version of the company’s wireless electronic book reader, called Kindle 2. In addition to a sleeker design, the upgraded device has a crisper display, more memory, longer battery life, and a text-to-speech function that allows the device to read words to users. With a cost of $359, a selection of over 230,000 books, and shipping scheduled to start on February 24th, here are25 Martian Science Fiction reasons why you should consider buying the new Kindle 2 e-reader:
• Gulliver of Mars (1905), by Edwin L. Arnold
• The Forge of Mars (2007), by Bruce Balfour
• The Martian Race (1999), by Gregory Benford
• The Evidence: a Novel (2006), by Austin Boyd
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920), by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Police Your Planet (1956), by Lester del Rey
• Martian Time-Slip (1964), by Philip K. Dick
• Semper Mars (1998), by Ian Douglas
• Zarlah the Martian (1909), by R. Norman Grisewood
• Marsbound (2008), by Joe Haldeman
• Mars Underground (1997), by William K. Hartmann
• Podkayne of Mars (1963), by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Martian: a Novel (1897), by George Du Maurier
• The Martian War: a Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent Invasion as Reported by Mr. H.G. Wells (2005), by Gabriel Mesta
• Starstrike: Task Force Mars (2007), by Douglas Niles
• Blue Mars (1996), by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898), by Garrett P. Serviss
• The Secret Martians (1960), by Jack Sharkey
• In the Courts of the Crimson Kings (2008), by S.M. Stirling
• The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants: a Psychic Revelation (1922), by Eros Urides
• Red Lightning (2006), by John Varley
• Olympus Mons (2003), by William Walling
• The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells
• Stowaway to Mars (1936), by John Wyndham
• First Landing (2001), by Robert Zubrin
According to Amazon's Jeff Bezos, “Our vision is every book ever printed, in any language, all available in less than 60 seconds."
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