- Paperback: 188 pages
- Publisher: New English Library Ltd (July 1 1987)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0450420248
- ISBN-13: 978-0450420245
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,473,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Life on Mars - From Earth, Jan 1 2000
By Greg Hughes - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Stowaway to Mars (Hardcover)
"Stowaway To Mars" is one of John Wyndham's early science fiction efforts, written years before he got his big break with "The Day of the Triffids". This futuristic story is set in the far-off year 1981, when a ship called the Gloria Mundi carries the first people to Mars. A young woman has sneaked aboard the ship, and tells the crew of what to expect when they touch down on Mars.This novel can be compared to H.G. Wells' "First Men in the Moon". Both stories have been proved inaccurate by that bubble burster called Reality. But this doesn't matter. The imagination of such stories is what really counts. This book is the beginning of one man's distinguished career.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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1930s science fiction, Feb 17 1999
By Andrew Rasanen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Stowaway to Mars (Hardcover)
Written by a young, pre-Triffids Wyndham under the name John Beynon, this is a less well developed effort that nonetheless shows his talent. The plot is standard, with an attractive female stowaway joining an all-male crew on a race to be the first nation to land on Mars, but it's graced with original details and intelligent epithets such as "Mind is the control of brain by memory," and the fast-paced plot keeps you reading. The most interesting elements are the Martian landscape, the rusty berserk Martian robots, and the sad remains of the Martian people whose cities are like a series of empty rooms. When the story turns into a space romance, you understand why the stowaway had to be female. Wyndham always wrote with a sure hand, and that was no less true of this early effort than of his later, better novels.
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a weak and very dated piece of forgotten science fiction..., Nov 8 2004
By lazza - Published on Amazon.com
'Stowaway to Mars' is an early work of John ('Day of the Triffids') Wyndham, written way back in the 1930s. The book was obviously a dud when it was first published since it was not released in the USA until the 1970s after John Wyndham finally found some success. And the book has not been reprinted in the USA since then either. So I was hoping this lack of attention was unfair and I had bumped into a hidden gem when I found this book at a used bookstore. Wrong. Very wrong.
Well as you can guess from the title, this book is about an adventure to Mars where a female stowaway "with a secret" creates a bit of havoc amongst the all-male crew. While the technology aspects of the story are incredibly dated I found the build up of sending the rocket to Mars to be rather entertaining. However the story degrades rather quickly when they actually land on Mars. The author fails to develop the situation, with the result being a very amateurish effort at describing Martian terrain and life. I was just glad the pain didn't last long since the book is very short.
Bottom line: a rather poor read I'm afraid. John Wyndham wrote much better stuff later in his career.
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