Martian Lit

The Official Index to the Martian Universe

Julian Darius — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:37:48 +0000

This document is intended as an index to the Martian Universe, listing all stories in their recommended reading order. Please note that the descriptions below contain spoilers. The following is a work-in-progress. The original version… [more]

Martian Lit Publishes its 30th Comic

Julian Darius — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 03:02:39 +0000

Martian Lit has published its 30th comic: Kimot Ren #5! Our comics line began in 2014, almost six years ago. In that time we’ve published 30 standard issues: Martian Comics #1-19 Kimot Ren #1-5 Necropolitan… [more]

“getting the laugh out of the reader”: An Interview with Nathaniel Tower about Nagging Wives, Foolish Husbands

Laura Madeline Wiseman — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:05:47 +0000

Nagging Wives, Foolish Husbands" title="“getting the laugh out of the reader”: An Interview with Nathaniel Tower about Nagging Wives, Foolish Husbands" style="float:left;" />Laura Madeline Wiseman: As a poet, I’m interested in how one puts together a collection of poems compared to how one puts together a book of poems. Short story collections, too, can be arranged in… [more]

CS DeWildt on Dead Animals

Laura Madeline Wiseman — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:00:21 +0000

Dead Animals" title="CS DeWildt on Dead Animals" style="float:left;" />Laura Madeline Wiseman: Let’s begin with your (writer) origin story. CS DeWildt: It was a vaginal birth, no complications. I hit the ground, twisted an ankle, and joined the race. Books were always there, and… [more]

Martian Lit Releases Laura Madeline Wiseman’s American Galactic

Julian Darius — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:47:28 +0000

American Galactic" title="Martian Lit Releases Laura Madeline Wiseman’s American Galactic" style="float:left;" />Martian Lit is proud to announce the release of its first book of poetry: American Galactic, by Laura Madeline Wiseman Opening with an epigraph from Charles Simic, “Lots of people around here have been taken for… [more]

Martian Lit Releases Nathaniel Tower’s Nagging Wives, Foolish Husbands

Julian Darius — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:18:17 +0000

Nagging Wives, Foolish Husbands" title="Martian Lit Releases Nathaniel Tower’s Nagging Wives, Foolish Husbands" style="float:left;" />Martian Lit is proud to announce the publication of Nathaniel Tower’s Nagging Wives, Foolish Husbands, a collection of absurd and literary short stories examining the surreal experiences of married life. The book has already received considerable… [more]

Martian Comics #1 Cover

Julian Darius — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 01:02:41 +0000

Martian Comics #1 Cover" title="Martian Comics #1 Cover" style="float:left;" />Here’s Darick Robertson’s beautiful cover for Martian Comics #1 — Martian Lit’s ambitious first comic book, coming in 2014. The comic is written by Julian Darius and Kevin Thurman, with interior art by Sergio Tarquini.… [more]

Praise for CS DeWildt’s Dead Animals

Julian Darius — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:13:58 +0000

Dead Animals" title="Praise for CS DeWildt’s Dead Animals" style="float:left;" />CS DeWildt’s Dead Animals, a short story collection published by Martian Lit, is winning tremendous praise as an innovative literary offering that is at once realistic and mind-bendingly troubling. J.J. Anderson, author of Trailer Park… [more]

Martian Lit Releases CS DeWildt’s Dead Animals

Julian Darius — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:30:43 +0000

Dead Animals" title="Martian Lit Releases CS DeWildt’s Dead Animals" style="float:left;" />Martian Lit is proud to announce the publication of CS DeWildt’s Dead Animals, a collection of short stories and flash. The book doesn’t pull its punches, and it focuses on damaged and damaging characters. But… [more]

Lost Martians

Laura Madeline Wiseman — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:00:31 +0000

I looked behind the dryer where socks, mittens, and dust bunnies crouch in shadows and lint. I looked inside the closets. I looked under the bed where I’ve found mp3 players, earplugs, and bad dreams.… [more]

More Glowing Reviews of Julian Darius’s Nira/Sussa

Bryan Aarons — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:00:04 +0000

Nira/Sussa" title="More Glowing Reviews of Julian Darius’s Nira/Sussa" style="float:left;" />Two new reviews have been published of Julian Darius’s Nira/Sussa, the first novel published by Martian Lit: one review by SR Jones and another by Pavarti K. Tyler. Snippets from SR Jones’s review include: With NIRA/SUSSA, author… [more]

Christopher

Hanna Elson — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:00:14 +0000

Teeth laid in porcelain face— the skin, molars. Bone-colored, carrying bridges. Come to me, angular body and hands clutching a book. Its blue cover’s threaded, paled in age. You read about brothers—a story of birds… [more]

Ceasefire

Mina Gorey — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:00:27 +0000

Battle, like fighting for peace. Day and Night. Blind tears of rage no one Hears or knows of, save those few I don’t horrify yet, who see me more Clearly than I see myself. Remember.… [more]

Move the Camera

John Edwards — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:00:13 +0000

The first thing you notice about Andy Warhol is that he is an albino. Needless to say, as a young kid with the attention span of a braindead, I was delighted by this fact. My… [more]

Target Practice

Ken Radu — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:00:04 +0000

The black door needed painting, but only after he had unhinged, removed, sanded and primed it. That wasn’t going to happen. He had intended to renovate his man cave in the basement. Man cave, what… [more]