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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About A Martian Odyssey by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum "A Martian Odyssey" is a science fiction story by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum. Plot Summary: Early... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

A Martian Odyssey is a classic science fiction short story by Stanley Weinbaum.

Author Stanley Weinbaum hit a science-fiction home run with his very first publication, the classic short story "A Martian Odyssey." In this action-packed tale... Read Full Overview

"A Martian Odyssey" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stanley G. Weinbaum originally published in the July 1934 issue of Wonder Stories. It was Weinbaum's second published story (in 1933 he had sold a romantic novel, The Lady Dances, to King Features Syndicate... Read Full Overview

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (also wrote as John Jessel and Marge Stanley) (1902-1935) was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, A Martian Odyssey, was published to great acclaim in July 1934. Most of the work... Read Full Overview

"Tweel set up such an excited clacking that I was certain he understood. He jumped up and down, and suddenly he pointed at himself and then at the sky, and then at himself and at the sky again. He pointed at his middle and then at Arcturus, at his head and then at Spica, at his... Read Full Overview

A four-man crew crash lands on Mars, and Dick Jarvis, who sets out on his own meets Tweel, a sympathetic creature who shows him the ways of the planet. A strange pyramid building creature, a tentacled 'dream beast', and broken record cart people. Check out for yourself why A... Read Full Overview

Jarvis stretched himself as luxuriously as he could in the cramped general quarters of the Ares."Air you can breathe " he exulted. "It feels as thick as soup after the thin stuff out there " He nodded at the Martian landscape stretching flat and desolate in the light of the nearer... Read Full Overview

A Martian Odyssey is a science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum originally published in the July 1934 issue of Wonder Stories. It was Weinbaum's second published stor, and remains his best known. It was followed four months later by a sequel, "Valley of Dreams". These... Read Full Overview

A Martian Odyssey, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This... Read Full Overview

A Martian Odyssey by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum Excerpt Jarvis stretched himself as luxuriously as he could in the cramped general quarters of the Ares. "Air you can breathe " he exulted. "It feels as thick as soup after the thin stuff out there " He nodded at the Martian landscape... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview