The Film-Makers of Mars

The discovery of forty reels of a lost 1911 movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, impossibly well-made and yet ineluctably old, is…weird.  But for the journalist protagonist of “The Film-makers of Mars,” that’s only the beginning of the weirdness to come...

Geoff Ryman’s longer works include The Unconquered Country , the novella version of which won the World Fantasy Award in 1985; The Child Garden , which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1990; the hypertext novel 253 , the “print remix” of which won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1999; and Air , which won the Arthur C. Clarke and James Tiptree, Jr. Awards in 2006.