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The Martians of Wells's invasion are beaten, and Edison builds a fleet to carry the war back to Mars, with Kelvin, Roentgen and the world's governments behind him. Garrett Serviss was an astronomer and a newspaperman, and wrote this in 1898 as an unauthorised sequel for a New York daily. It contains the first space suit, the first asteroid mining and the first ray-gun battle in fiction. Six plates from Church and Bierstadt, whose turbulent clouds and Cotopaxi skies give the Martian campaign the scale it demands.
The Martians of Wells's invasion are beaten, and Edison builds a fleet to carry the war back to Mars, with Kelvin, Roentgen and the world's governments behind him. Garrett Serviss was an astronomer and a newspaperman, and wrote this in 1898 as an unauthorised sequel for a New York daily. It conta...
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Garrett P. Serviss (1851-1929) was an American astronomer and popular writer born in Sharon Springs, New York. A newspaperman who left journalism to lecture on astronomy with the Urania scientific entertainments, he wrote both popular science and early science fiction. His works include Curiosities of the Sky, Astronomy with an Opera-Glass, and Edison's Conquest of Mars.
Garrett P. Serviss (1851-1929) was an American astronomer and popular writer born in Sharon Springs, New York. A newspaperman who left journalism to lecture on astronomy with the Urania scientific entertainments, he wrote both popular science and early science fiction. His works include Curiositi...
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