TOC for new YA anthology Life on Mars: Tales from New Frontiers

Australian editor Jonathan Strahan has announced the table of contents for Life on Mars: Tales from New Frontiers, a new Young Adult science fiction anthology of futuristic stories that "takes as its leaping off point that we do go to Mars in 2040”:

• “Attlee and the Long Walk" by Kage Baker
• “The Old Man and the Martian Sea” by Alastair Reynolds
• “Wahala” by Nnedi Okorafor
• “On Chryse Plain” by Stephen Baxter
• “First Principle” by Nancy Kress
• “Martian Chronicles” by Cory Doctorow (novella)
• “Goodnight Moons” by Ellen Klages
• “The Taste of Promises” by Rachel Swirsky
• “Digging” by Ian McDonald
• “LARP on Mars” by Chris Roberson
• “Martian Heart” by John Barnes
• “Discovering Life” by Kim Stanley Robinson

Solid line-up of authors! Let's hope the cover, which has not yet been revealed, looks as good!

Life on Mars: Tales from New Frontiers is being published by Viking and, according to Amazon, is scheduled to be released in April 2011. Meanwhile, listen to Cory Doctorow read a working draft of his novella “Martian Chronicles,” which he deposited in the Internet Archive several months ago.

Pictured: Cover art of the August 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, depicting "Dome repairs on Mars." Artwork by Mel Hunter.

[via Tinkoo Valia of Variety SF]