The Memory of Mars

A Memory of Mars is a powerful work of its genre that also manages to get the reader to care about more than just the science fiction- it also gets them to care about its characters. In this short but effective story, reporter Mel Hastings' wife Alice gets sick, and is rushed to the hospital. What follows from then on presents a quandary to Hastings that is not only uniquely sci-fi, but also has implications for his mind that are very disturbing indeed. Witness one of the most influential science fiction stories of the twentieth century in A Memory of Mars.