Platinum Pohl (2012)
“was published in 1955, we knew a lot less about Mars than we know today. We were more than forty years away from flybys, landings, Mars rovers … it was still pretty much a Red Planet of mystery. Therefore, science fiction writers could write anything they wanted about Mars, so long as it didn’t seem ridiculous.
Frederik Pohl has written a number of stories about Mars, and his Martian stories have changed with the available scientific knowledge. But this story could take place on any planet we don’t know a lot about. It’s not so much about the planet itself as it is about what might happen to a world—Earth, Mars, or another—where technology outlasts its creators.
It’s not a new theme, but Pohl’s treatment is full of the excitement and danger of the unknown … and its possibilities.
just ahead of us we saw a cluster of smoke trees suddenly quiver, though there wasn’t a whisper of a breeze, and begin to emit their clouds of dense yellow vapor from their branch tips.
“Let’s get a move on, Will,”
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