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The Day The Martians Came (1988)

par Frederik Pohl

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Un día de Nochebuena, en la lejana superficie de Marte, los maltrechos supervivientes de una expedición científica, abocada desde su inicio al fracaso iban a hacer un descubrimiento trascendental: el Planeta Rojo no sólo había albergado en su tiempo vida inteligente, ¡sino que todavía quedaban algunos especímenes vivos! ¡Aún existían marcianos en Marte!
  Natt90 | Nov 9, 2022 |
This novel was published in 1988 but has origins in 7 short stories published between 1967 and 1987 (most 86-87). The first of these was "The Day After The Day The Martians Came" from 1967 which appeared in Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking anthology "Dangerous Visions". Some call this type of novel a "fix-up" book. There are new additional stories in here that Pohl wrote for this book as well as quite a few interstitial pieces between the stories. The result is a loosely connected series of stories, but not a real novel in a traditional sense. Still, it works as a whole better than I would expect. Some of these stories I thought were pretty good. This is sort of old fashioned story-telling science fiction about everyday people. The segment "A Martian Christmas" got the book off to a good start as did the funny bit about a John Carter movie. This isn't masterpiece stuff, but Pohl is good at short stories and this reflects it. This was easy to read in small pieces. ( )
  RBeffa | Dec 5, 2013 |
I don't ususally do spoilers, but in this case it's kind of hard to avoid. The Martians come to Earth. Says so in the title. However, the story isn't so much about the day the Martians came, as it is about the discovery of the Martians and how people on Earth respond to the astronauts bringing them back to Earth. I found the different viewpoints interesting and thought-provoking. In the end, tho, the Martians do come to Earth. The part of the story devoted to them on Earth is minimal. I'm thinking the important part is how Earthlings handle the news and relate to the Martians. An enjoyable story otherwise, considering it was pieced together from several short stories. I didn't know that going in, but it does explain the couple of instances where the story seemed to jump with no connection to another "scene", and why some of the chapters didn't flow evenly together. A tribute to the author that the story is cohesive despite those instances. ( )
  Neverwithoutabook | May 28, 2013 |
The book “The Day the Martians Came” is a fix-up of several of Pohl’s short stories, written during the seventies and eighties, with the short stories are put together and edited to make a single novel. The plot of this novel concerns itself with the discovery of semi-intelligent Martians (they look like seals with spider’s legs) which are brought back to earth for protection and scientific study.

It sounds like a pedestrian enough concept – Martians have been found in many other stories – and I am sure that Martians have been brought back to earth previously. Pohl does a different take on this by not simply sticking with the type of people that we would normally associate with this science fiction staple. Pohl does use astronauts and rocket scientists when they are required, but we also get people who would seem to be far-divorced from such an undertaking. We meet characters like a hotel owner, a con artist, a script writer, an ageing labourer, a member of a religious cult, and so forth. It’s an interesting concept, seeing how the everyman is affected by such an event, and Pohl does do characterisation quite well. I also appreciated the occasional reference in one story to previous characters, although this is not done in any way that could be called subtle.

The story is not without its problems, though. The rapid changing of characters means that we can’t really get involved with the characters of the story, being with them only for a chapter or two, and not all of the characters are interesting to read about, which I suppose is inevitable when you are changing through so many viewpoints. The ageing labourer, for example, is a character that I was glad to see the back of, and the effect that the Martians being brought to Earth had on the hotelier was extremely predictable – he gets more visitors for a week or two. I don’t need to read a book to be told something that obvious. On the other hand, the effects that the existence of Martians have on a religious cult, or on a pair of con-artists, makes for extremely interesting reading – I suppose the two opposites do even each-other out.

Apart from the changing characters and perspective, the origins of this novel mean the reader is presented with a variety of good, small ideas, ideally suited for the short story form, but does not leave the same impact as the presentation of several good, large ideas.

All up, “The Day the Martians Came” is an interesting concept for it’s attempt to view a science-fiction staple from an angle it is not normally seen from, but the story does lag at times. ( )
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"Frederik Pohl's new book is not a novel, despite what the inside flap says, but an excellent linked short-story collection. Most of the stories have been published before, including one which appeared in Dangerous Visions, though in somewhat different form."
"The book is about humans, not Martians, and Pohl's characters are three-dimensional, convincing, and alive."
"I wouldn't have thought there was anything new to be written about men from Mars, but Pohl has proved me wrong, and done a bang-up job of it. If you want proof that science fiction can produce characters you'll care about, read The Day The Martians Came, and learn more about the human race."
ajouté par RBeffa | modifierAboriginal Science Fiction, Janice M. Eisen (Mar 1, 1989)
 

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