Old Mars , the retro-sf themed anthology edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, has won the Locus Award for best anthology of 2013.

The fifteen stories in the book are each set in one of the "Mars of the minds" that used to exist in science fiction before real-life probes and rovers revealed the true state of our nearest planetary neighbor. There are tales drawn from the Barsoom of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the warlike source of H.G. Wells's tripod-riding invaders of Earth, and Ray Bradbury's moody The Martian Chronicles.

My own contribution, "The Ugly Duckling," was conceived as a "discarded chapter" of Bradbury's work, set during the early years of humanity's occupation of the red planet and the destruction of the remnants of the Martian civilization.