For many years Richard Hoagland alone hypothesized that sentient beings spent time on Mars millions of years ago assembling behemoth structures whose ruins are still seen today. Here Hoagland redefines the solar system as a different place than NASA has presented. The book includes a new preface covering the Mars Global Surveyor photos and reactions of NASA.

Richard C. Hoagland has been a NASA consultant, and Science Advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News. In 1993 he won the Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science. For the last eighteen years, Hoagland has led a multi-disciplinary team - the Enterprise Mission - in an intensely controversial scientific investigation of potential artificial structures on the Moon and Mars.

"I'm fairly convinced that we have discovered life on Mars. There are some incredible photographs [from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory], which to me are pretty convincing proof of the existence of large forms of life on Mars! Have a look at them. I don't see any other interpretation."
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke

"I've seen the studies and I've seen the photographs--and there do appear to be formations of a 'face' and 'pyramids' [on Mars] that do not appear to be of natural or normal existence. It looks like they had to be fashioned by some intelligent beings. For this reason, I have asked NASA to provide assurances that the Mars Observer mission include this [set of targets] as one of its imaging objectives."
- Robert A. Roe, former Chairman, Congressional House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

"Richard Hoagland has really been very successful [in The Monuments of Mars] because, as you know, not only do we have the Mars Observer coming up, but he has managed to convince the President [George Walker Bush] to state that a return to Mars is one of our major goals."
- Dr. John Klineberg, former Director, NASA-Lewis Research Center

"I'm sure you're aware of the extremely grave potential for cultural shock and social disorientation contained in this present situation, if the facts were prematurely and suddenly made public without adequate preparation and conditioning."
- Heywood Floyd, Head, The National Council of Astronautics, 2001

Table of Contents

About the Cover
Author's Foreword (2001)
Author's Preface (1987)
Author's Preface - Addendum (1991)
Publisher's Foreword
by Richard Grossinger

Section I: Discovery
I. A Modern Martian Chronicle
II. Discovering the City
III. The Once and Future Mars
IV. Testing for the Reality of
     "Martians"
V. A City Viewed from Orbit
VI. Initial Speculations
VII. Challenging Assumptions

Section II: Investigation and Reaction
VIII. Involving a "Second Opinion"
IX. The Independent Mars
      Investigation
X. We Prepare to Tell the World at
     Boulder
XI. Reaction... Including from the
     Soviets

XII. Laying the Groundwork for the
       Joint Man Mission

Section III: Analysis and Implications
XIII. Confirming the Reality of Martians
XIV. Searching for Their Origins As Well
XV. A Terrestrial Connection?
XVI. Going Back to Mars

Appendix to the Second Edition
XVII. Four Years of Additional Research
XVIII. A Funny Thing Happened on Our
          Way to Mars
XIX. The Moon/Mars Connection

Epilogue

Appendix to the Fourth Edition
by James L. Erjavec and Ronald R. Nicks

Appendix to the Fifth Edition:
Opening a Martian Can of Worms?
by Ronald R. Nicks

Index

534 pages, 6 x 9, Paperback, Illustrated

Price - $29.95