CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Map

ONE: Michel in Antarctica

TWO: Exploring Fossil Canyon

THREE: The Archaea Plot

FOUR: The Way the Land Spoke to Us

1. The Great Escarpment

2. Flatness

FIVE: Maya and Desmond

       SIX: Four Teleological Trails

       1. Wrong way

       2. Mistakes can be good

       3. You can’t lose the trail

       4. The natural genius

       SEVEN: Coyote Makes Trouble

       EIGHT: Michel in Provence

       NINE: Green Mars

       TEN: Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars

       ELEVEN: Salt and Fresh

       TWELVE: The Constitution of Mars

       THIRTEEN: Some Worknotes and Commentary on the Constitution, by Charlotte Dorsa Brevia

       FOURTEEN: Jackie on Zo

       FIFTEEN: Keeping the Flame

       SIXTEEN: Saving Noctis Dam

       SEVENTEEN: Big Man in Love

       EIGHTEEN: An Argument for the Deployment of All Safe Terraforming Technologies

       NINETEEN: Selected Abstracts from The journal of Areological Studies, vols. 56–64

       TWENTY: Odessa

       TWENTY-ONE: Sexual Dimorphism

       TWENTY-TWO: Enough Is as Good as a Feast

       TWENTY-THREE: What Matters

       TWENTY-FOUR: Coyote Remembers

       TWENTY-FIVE: Sax Moments

       TWENTY-SIX: A Martian Romance

       TWENTY-SEVEN: If Wang Wei Lived on Mars and other poems

       1. Visiting

       2. After a Move

       3. Canyon Colour

       4. Vastitas Borealis

       5. Night Song

       6. Desolation

       7. The Names of the Canals

       8. Another Night Song

       9. Six Thoughts on the Uses of Art

       i. What’s in My Pocket

       ii. In the Finale of Beethoven’s Ninth

       iii. Reading Emerson’s journal

       iv. The Walkman

       v. Dreams Are Real

       vi. Seen While Running

       10. Crossing Mather Pass

       11. Night in the Mountains

       i. Camp

       ii. The Ground

       iii. Writing by Starlight

       12. Invisible Owls

       13. Tenzing

       14. The Soundtrack

       15. A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy

       16. The Reds’ Lament

       17. Two Years