The Sands of Mars - Softcover

Clarke, Arthur C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451123123 ISBN 13: 9780451123121

Publisher: Ace, 1974

Synopsis

In Clarke's first published full-length science fiction novel, renowned science fiction writer Martin Gibson joins the spaceship Ares, the world's first interplanetary ship for passenger travel, on its maiden voyage to Mars. His mission: to report back to the home planet about the new Mars colony and the progress it has been making.

First published in 1951, before the achievement of space flight, Clarke addresses hard physical and scientific issues with aplomb—and the best scientific understanding of the times. Included are the challenges of differing air pressures, lack of oxygen, food provisions, severe weather patterns, construction on Mars, and methods of local travel-both on the surface and to the planet's two moons.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur C. Clarke was considered to be the greatest science fiction writer of all time. He was an international treasure in many other ways: an article he wrote in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Mr. Clarke - both fiction and nonfiction - have more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide. He died in 2008 at the age of 90.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ace
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0451123123
• ISBN 13: 9780451123121
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 206