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A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum

A Martian Odyssey

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · September 21, 2021

A Science Fiction pick for readers exploring A Martian Odyssey.

The ClassicsAlien ContactSpace Exploration Fictionshort story
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Who it’s for
A planetary adventure where the long walk home brings danger—and an unlikely companion.
Genres
Space Exploration Fiction, Alien Contact, The Classics
Published
Start Publishing LLC, September 21, 2021

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About this book

Set on a Mars that never was. Dick Jarvis, one of the members of the first space ship to reach Mars sets out on a solo expedition to photograph the countryside. His Rockets engine gives out 800 miles from the ship and he is forced to walk back. Accompanied by a Martian that he saved from certain death Jarvis must face one danger after another if he is to get back home.

Across Imagined Mars

A planetary adventure where the long walk home brings danger—and an unlikely companion.

Come here for

  • A stranded astronaut’s perilous trek across an imagined Mars
  • An uneasy, unexpected Martian companion

Expect

  • Old-fashioned space exploration with a vivid survival thread
  • A Mars shaped by imaginative alien encounters

Where it sits

Alien Contact72%
Space Exploration Fiction34%
The Classics34%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Sci-Fi
  • Sci-Fi Adventure
  • Space Opera
Authors
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Published
September 21, 2021
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Sci-Fi