Now, Arabella must decide between staying loyal to the man she loves and the country of her father or betraying all that she has known to fight alongside the Martians in a hopeless resistance against the Galaxy’s last remaining superpower.” (Catalogue)Ī Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs (ebook) Both Company and Crown have decided that it is time to bring Mars into the folds of Empire, and they think Singh is the perfect man to do it. “At last husband and wife, Arabella and Captain Singh seem to have earned the attention of great men, ones who have new uses in mind for the Mars Company captain and his young wife.

To get back home, he must fight back now.” (Catalogue)Īrabella the traitor of Mars / Levine, David D.

“In this sequel to the unnerving One Way, Frank Kitteridge, who’s been abandoned on Mars by the unscrupulous builders of the first base there, learns that survivors at another base are itching to exploit him for all he’s worth. Ballard, as well as hard-to-find stories by unjustly forgotten writers from the genre.” (Catalogue) This wonderful collection offers ten wildly imaginative short stories from the golden age of science fiction by such classic sci-fi writers as H.G. “Since the 1880s, after an astronomer first described “channels” on the surface of Mars, writers have been fascinated with the planet, endlessly speculating on what life on Mars might look like and what might happen should we make contact with the planet’s inhabitants. Lost Mars : stories from the golden age of the red planet Something for all tastes in these voyages of the imagination.

And Richard K Morgan’s Thin Air dives into corruption and kidnapping in a vividly rendered Martian outpost. Levine is a space opera nostalgia package bedecked with regency props, political intrigue and a swashbuckling heroine. Simon Morden’s sequel to One Way continues a thrilling science fiction series that places convicts on the red planet’s surface. Chinese students can experience life on a Martian base in the Gobi desert as China prepares an orbiter and rover for the 2020 launch window.įor the rest of us, interplanetary exploration is only a page turn away, with a heady mix of nostalgia, fast-paced action, intrigue and Martian terrain that is envisioned from the lush to the inhospitably harsh.

Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our Earthly hopes and fears.”įiction writers since the days of Edgar Rice Burroughs have speculated on what or who might live on Mars, and how humans might fare together or alone in a new environment. Current space-faring aspirations have inspired various nations to investigate the ‘red planet’, from the NASA Mars rover - your name could make the interplanetary voyage - to the UAE Hope probe due to launch next year.

Arabella the traitor of mars