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    A Martian Odyssey
    A Martian Odyssey
    A Martian Odyssey
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    A Martian Odyssey

    By Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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    A Martian Odyssey was written in the year 1934 by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum. This book is one of the most popular novels of Stanley Grauman Weinbaum, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

    This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooklassic
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9789635231089
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    • 4/5
      Wonderful to read an 84-year-old SFnal representation of *truly* alien consciousnesses, explicitly made to be so by the author. It was hokey to have a Mars setting, but 84 years ago not quite as hokey as it would be today.Tweel's character is a hoot. I would love to meet this boop-snoot! And there's a twist at the end of the story that sums up humanity and colonialism right tidily. *sigh*
    • 5/5
      It was written in 1934, but it still rings with adventure in the 21st century. Arthur C Clarke himself said it was the only story he ever read that he wanted to immediately read again, to see how the author was able to set up a really engaging story so quickly.
    • 5/5
      The title story is a wonderful and well-told story about a stranded astronaut's hike across Mars (which makes it sound far more grim then it is). It features such casual marvels as an accurate view of the sky long before photos from Mars' surface existed. It is also a good first contact story with genuinely alien aliens. Highly recommended.

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    A Martian Odyssey - Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

    A Martian Odyssey

    Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

    Booklassic

    2015

    ISBN 978-963-523-108-9

    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 moon, beyond the glass of the port.

    The other three stared at him sympathetically—Putz, the engineer, Leroy, the biologist, and Harrison, the astronomer and captain of the expedition. Dick Jarvis was chemist of the famous crew, the Ares expedition, first human beings to set foot on the mysterious neighbor of the earth, the planet Mars. This, of course, was in the old days, less than twenty years after the mad American Doheny perfected the atomic blast at the cost of his life, and only a decade after the equally mad Cardoza rode on it to the moon. They were true pioneers, these four of the Ares. Except for a half-dozen moon expeditions and the ill-fated de Lancey flight aimed at the seductive orb of Venus, they were the first men to feel other gravity than earth's, and certainly the first successful crew to leave the earth-moon system. And they deserved that success when one considers the difficulties and discomforts—the months spent in acclimatization chambers back on earth, learning to breathe the air as tenuous as that of Mars, the challenging of the void in the tiny rocket driven by the cranky reaction motors of the twenty-first century, and mostly the facing of an absolutely unknown world.

    Jarvis stretched and fingered the raw and peeling tip of his frostbitten nose. He sighed again contentedly.

    Well, exploded Harrison abruptly, are we going to hear what happened? You set out all shipshape in an auxiliary rocket, we don't get a peep for ten days, and finally Putz here picks you out of a lunatic ant-heap with a freak ostrich as your pal! Spill it, man!

    Speel? queried Leroy perplexedly. Speel what?

    "He means 'spiel'," explained Putz soberly. It iss to tell.

    Jarvis met Harrison's amused glance without the shadow of a smile. That's right, Karl, he said in grave agreement with Putz. Ich spiel es! He grunted comfortably and began.

    According to orders, he said, I watched Karl here take off toward the North, and then I got into my flying sweat-box and headed south. You'll remember, Cap—we had orders not to land, but just scout about for points of interest. I set the two cameras clicking and buzzed along, riding pretty high—about two thousand feet—for a couple of reasons. First, it gave the cameras a greater field, and second, the under-jets travel so far in this half-vacuum they call air here that they stir up dust if you move low.

    We know all that from Putz, grunted Harrison. "I wish you'd saved the films, though. They'd have paid the cost of this junket; remember

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