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Prelude to Mars: An Omnibus Containing the Complete Novels Prelude to Space and the Sands of Mars and Sixteen Short Stories
Prelude to Mars An Omnibus Containing the Complete Novels Prelude to Space and the Sands of Mars and Sixteen Short Stories Author:Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Mars: The Variety and fascination of science fiction in the hands of the master are strikingly in a volume that brings together two full-length novels and sixteen stories by Arthur C. Clarke, whom Holiday has called the "the colossus of of science fiction." — Prelude to Mars. the first of t... more »he novels, is a vivid account of the events that culminate in man's first voyage to the moon. Written when the adventure seemed a remote possibility, and now regarded as a classic in its field, it gains fresh interest from an introduction discussing in which the actualities of space travel are overtaking the authur's speculations about it. Actuality has yet to overtake Sands of Mars, a novel in which courageous and visionary men bring off a vast experiment to make permanent colonization of that forbidding planet possible. « less