All the colors of Mars: A list of 17 works

Many months ago, while perusing science writer Oliver Morton’s brilliant nonfiction work of scientific journalism, Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World (2002), I came across a footnote which mentioned some SF books about Mars that have the names of colors in the titles. Building on Morton's footnote, I've compiled “All the Colors of Mars: A List of 17 Works”:

• White Mars, or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia (1999), by Brain W. Aldiss and Roger Penrose

• “A Whiter Mars: A Socratic Dialogue of Times to Come” (1995), by Brian W. Aldiss

• Mars - The Red Planet (1990), by Mick Farren

• “The Red Death of Mars” (1940), by Robert Moore Williams

• Red Mars (1992), by Kim Stanley Robinson

• Red Men of Mars (1950), by John Russell Fearn

• “Red Slag of Mars” (1932), by Jack Williamson and Laurence Schwartzman

• “Yellow Men of Mars” (1941), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• “Green Mars” (1985), by Kim Stanley Robinson

• Green Mars (1994) by Kim Stanley Robinson

• The Greening of Mars (1984), by Michael Allaby and James Lovelock

• Blue Mars (1996), by Kim Stanley Robinson

• “Purple Mars” (1999), by Kim Stanley Robinson

• Beige Planet Mars (1998), by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham

• “Black Amazon of Mars” (1951), by Leigh Brackett

• Black-Wings of Mars (1953), by Vargo Statten

• Rainbow Mars (1999), by Larry Niven

It’s worth noting that “Ecopoiesis” (1997), by Geoffrey A. Landis, had a working title of “Brown Mars.” And, as Oliver Morton notes in Mapping Mars, the title “Magenta Mars” is still available!