Notes
The short story 'Discovering Life' did not appear in the Bantam Spectra hardcover edition, and was subsequently inserted into the Bantam Spectra paperback edition as a new item (seventh in order) increasing the count of short fiction to 31 for this publication. Other than the copyright notice, and the slight changes to the table of contents, no mention of this 'New' work appears on the cover, or introductory material for this publication. This work also did not make it into the British publications from 1999.
Any editor verifying any edition of this work should double check for the presence or absence of 'Discovering Life'.
- Publisher is stated as:
- "Voyager" on spine
- "HarperCollinsPublishers" on title page
- "Voyager" (over) "an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers" on copyright page
- "Published by Voyager 1999" on copyright page
- Month of publication taken from Locus
- Number line: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
- First printing by numberline
- In the table of contents, the title of Selected Abstracts From The Journal Of Areological Studies is listed as Selected Abstracts From The Journal Of Areological Studies, vols. 56-64.
- The short story "Discovering Life" does not appear in this edition, but was subsequently added to the Bantam Spectra paperback edition as a new item.
- There is an uncredited double-spread map followed by an uncredited diagram of The Martian Calendar before the table of contents.
- There are eighteen pieces (pages 361-394) presented under the group title "If Wang Wei Lived on Mars and Other Poems". This is how the group is identified in the book's table of contents and also on the section's introductory page. Each of the individual pieces are listed in the book's table of contents.
- "Jacket illustration by Peter Elson" on rear dust jacket flap
