- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph; New edition edition (Mar 11 1974)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 071811101X
- ISBN-13: 978-0718111014
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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.
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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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Best left for wyndham fans, Mar 13 2012
By DK - Published on Amazon.com
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Wyndham has written much better stuff, but you can still feel the Wyndham charm on occassion. Probably best left for only the most die hard of Wyndham fans. The kindle edition, however, is poorly prepared. I own a physical copy of the book and the two can hardly be compared -- all formatting has essentially been lost in the kindle edition; medium and long dashes (--) have vanished as well, resulting in conversation with sentences that bleed together without boundaries.
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