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    The Man Who Hated Mars
    The Man Who Hated Mars
    The Man Who Hated Mars
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    The Man Who Hated Mars

    By Randall Garrett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Man Who Hated Mars
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    Randall Garrett

    Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.

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      An excellent little story about a prison-break from Mars. Written as an acknowledged predecessor to Heinlein's scenario for Mars.Great story by the author of the "Lord Darcy" books.

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    Title: The Man Who Hated Mars

    Author: Gordon Randall Garrett

    Release Date: May 30, 2008 [EBook #25644]

    Language: English

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    To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp—get onto a ship that couldn't be boarded—smash through an impenetrable wall of steel. Perhaps he could do all these things, but he discovered that Mars did evil things to men; that he wasn't even Clayton any more. He was only—

    THE MAN WHO

    HATED MARS

    By RANDALL GARRETT

    I want you to put me in prison! the big, hairy man said in a trembling voice.

    He was addressing his request to a thin woman sitting behind a desk that seemed much too big for her. The plaque on the desk said:

    LT. PHOEBE HARRIS

    TERRAN REHABILITATION SERVICE

    Lieutenant Harris glanced at the man before her for only a moment before she returned her eyes to the dossier on the desk; but long enough to verify the impression his voice had given. Ron Clayton was a big, ugly, cowardly, dangerous man.

    He said: Well? Dammit, say something!

    The lieutenant raised her eyes again. Just be patient until I've read this. Her voice and eyes were expressionless, but her hand moved beneath the desk.

    The frightful carnage would go down in the bloody history of space.

    Clayton froze. She's yellow! he thought. She's turned on the trackers! He could see the pale greenish glow of their little eyes watching him all around the room. If he made any fast move, they would cut him down with a stun beam before he could get two feet.

    She had thought he was going to jump her. Little rat! he thought, somebody ought to slap her down!

    He

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