Brian Bieniowski, managing editor at
Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, revisits
James Blish’s juvenile SF novel
Welcome to Mars (1967) in a lengthy but awesome editorial titled “
You Might Go Home Again” in the
March 2009 issue of the magazine. Here's an excerpt:
I can recall the day I read aloud my book report on James Blish's Welcome to Mars to Mrs. Blumenthal's seventh-grade English class. It was December 6, 1988 -- the day Roy Orbison died. I spoke with great gusto about Dolph Haertel's historic trip to the Red Planet in his bread-boarded antigravity-driven packing crate loaded with enough K-rations and bottled oxygen to allow him to survive the over-night journey there and back. Dolph appeared so adult, compared to my own eleven years, and would have had the experience obviously necessary to invent a personal antigravity ship at the advanced age of eighteen. More exciting was the high adventure of Dolph's stranding on Mars ...
Pictured above: An early
cover of Blish's
Welcome to Mars.
Brian Bieniowski, managing editor at Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, revisits James Blish’s juvenile SF novel Welcome to Mars (1967) in a lengthy but awesome editorial titled “You Might Go Home Again” in the March 2009 issue of the magazine. Here's an excerpt:
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