# Shields of Mars *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Apr 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *03 Apr 2002, 08:51* I read GW's new short story, "Shields of Mars" (in the June 2002 MARS PROBES anthology from DAW) last night. A straight Hard SF tale about engineers tending a nuclear reactor on Mars, but with a wonderful transformative twist at the end. Very shrewd stuff (and the rest of the anthology, I should add, is pretty good too--Aldiss, McAuley, O'Leary, Baxter, Moorcock, McDonald...). Best, Nick. ---