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The Chessmen of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs explores science fiction, mars (planet) — fiction.
In Search of the Unknown
A zoologist employed by a New York museum investigates reports of extraordinary animals. His expeditions bring elusive creatures, unexpected companions and encounters that rarely proceed as planned.
Thuvia, maid of Mars
Thuvia becomes caught between rival Martian cities and the ambitions of those who seek her. Carthoris follows her through ruined places, strange inhabitants and dangerous misunderstandings.
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
A substance that enormously accelerates growth escapes the control of its inventors. Wells follows its effects on animals, children and the society that must confront a new scale of life.
The Tunnel Under the World
Guy Burckhardt wakes after a terrifying dream and gradually notices that his town is repeating the same day. His investigation reveals disturbing connections between ordinary routines and a hidden experiment.
A Little Journey
An elderly woman joins a promised journey to meet the divine and discovers that the arrangements are far less certain than she expected. Bradbury follows hope and disappointment through a short space-age tale.
Police Your Planet
A disgraced officer reaches Mars and finds work within a police force entangled with the city’s criminal interests. Lester del Rey follows his efforts to survive, investigate and decide where his loyalties belong.
The hellflower
A pilot whose career has collapsed is offered work connected with the trade in a powerful drug. George O. Smith follows his passage into an interplanetary investigation involving altered perceptions, hidden interests and the problem of whom to trust.
Gray Lensman
Kimball Kinnison’s work as a Lensman takes him deeper into an interstellar struggle against organised crime and its hidden leadership. E. E. Smith follows investigations, voyages and confrontations across a universe of specialised technologies and varied life forms.
The master mind of Mars
An American transported to Mars becomes involved with a surgeon whose work can transfer minds between bodies. Edgar Rice Burroughs follows the resulting conflict through disputed identities, dangerous journeys and the protagonist’s attachment to a young woman.
The Knights of Arthur
Survivors in a devastated future travel with Arthur, an unusual intelligence housed in portable equipment. Frederik Pohl follows their efforts to find resources, negotiate with other groups and turn Arthur’s abilities into a means of survival.
Planet explorer
A Colonial Survey officer visits human settlements facing problems particular to their planets. Murray Leinster follows the investigations through unfamiliar environments, biological hazards and practical decisions about how the outposts can continue to function.