Rainbow Mars

Contents

• "Rainbow Mars". With a new Secretary General that is interested more in space travel than animals, Svetz uses his time machine to visit Mars, which he finds populated by the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, C. S. Lewis, H. G. Wells, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. The story began as a collaboration with Terry Pratchett; a number of his ideas remain in the final draft, mainly the use of Yggdrasil.
• "Get a Horse!", first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1969. Svetz is sent back in time to capture a horse, but brings back a unicorn instead.
• "Bird in the Hand", first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1970. Svetz is sent to get a roc, but returns with an ostrich, which he reverse engineers into a roc. A co-worker swipes a prototype of the very first automobile, causing a dangerous problem in the present.
• "Leviathan!", first published in Playboy, August 1970. Svetz is sent to capture the largest mythical creature that was ever imagined, Leviathan.
• "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine", first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1970. Svetz falls in love with a woman who evolved from a wolf.
• "Death in a Cage", first published in Niven's collection The Flight of the Horse. Svetz encounters the archetype of the Grim Reaper.
• "Svetz and the Beanstalk", an afterword in which Niven discusses the fictional sources for Rainbow Mars.