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Available
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Publication
St. Martin's Press (1988), Edition: 1st, 240 pages
Description
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries.
Media reviews
Aboriginal Science Fiction
"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
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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." Show Less
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LibraryThing member Neverwithoutabook
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
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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. Show Less
LibraryThing member RBeffa
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
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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. Show Less
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Original language
English