James Blish’s Welcome to Mars and the Haertel Complex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11061097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Ketterer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | Part 3 |
| Pages | 284-290 |
| Publication date | 1984-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Fiction Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7729 • E-ISSN: 2327-6207 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sfs.11.3.0284 |
| OpenAlex | W4410328859 |
| Language | EN |
An analysis of Welcome to Mars (1966), which features one of Blish’s master scientists, Adolph Haertel, as a boy, leads into a consideration of the cross-references in, and relationships between, those Blish stories which might collectively be designated the “Haertel Complex.” Although for many years unaware of the Complex’s symmetrical structure (rooted in Welcome to Mars) until an English correspondent, Paul Shackley, pointed it out to him in the early 1970s, Blish expanded “Beep” (1954) into The Quincunx of Time (1973) with that structure very much in mind. (DK)
Art · Art history · Astrobiology · Mars Exploration Program · Physics · Philosophy · Space exploration and regulation · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Highly cited | No |
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