The Martians

The Martians is a companion volume to the three volumes of the Mars trilogy, published in 1999. It is a short story collection, consisting of stories, poems, in-universe article excerpts, essays, and even meta/autobiographical stories ("Purple Mars"). Some of the stories were published before. Some stories do not take place in the same universe as the Mars trilogy; some others, while they share the same characters, are evidently alternate timelines to the trilogy.

It consists of the following stories:

Michel In Antarctica

Exploring Fossil Canyon

The Archaea Plot

The Way The Land Spoke To Us

Maya And Desmond

Four Teleological Trails

Discovering Life

Coyote Makes Trouble

Michel In Provence

Green Mars

Arthur Sternbach Brings The Curveball To Mars

Salt and Fresh

The Constitution Of Mars

Some Worknotes And Commentary On The Constitution, by Charlotte Dorsa Brevia

Jackie On Zo

Keeping The Flame

Saving Noctis Dam

Big Man In Love

An Argument For The Deployment Of All Safe Terraforming Technologies

Selected Abstracts From The Journal Of Areological Studies

Odessa

Sexual Dimorphism

Enough Is As Good As A Feast

What Matters

Coyote Remembers

Sax Moments

The Names Of The Canals

The Soundtrack

A Martian Romance

If Wang Wei Lived On Mars And Other Poems

Purple Mars