ISBN:0-340-15835-02 There is another book of this title and this particlur ISBN but has a different Cover Illustration than this volume published in Great Britain by Coronet Books in association with Hodder Paperback Inc., and printed by The Chaucer Press (Suffolk).Stowaway to Mars is a science...
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ISBN:0-340-15835-02 There is another book of this title and this particlur ISBN but has a different Cover Illustration than this volume published in Great Britain by Coronet Books in association with Hodder Paperback Inc., and printed by The Chaucer Press (Suffolk).Stowaway to Mars is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham. It was first published in 1935 as Planet Plane (Newnes Limited, London), then serialised in The Passing Show as Stowaway to Mars and again in 1937 in Modern Wonder magazine as The Space Machine. The novel was written under one of Wyndham's early pen names, John Beynon. It was first published in Paperback form by Coronet Books in 1972 as "Stowaway to Mars by John Wyndham". ISBN 0-340-15835-2. Reviewer Groff Conklin described the first American edition as "an interesting adventure story."The plot follows a team of British men who are attempting to fly a spaceship to Mars and back in a contest against two other teams. Winner takes all. Losers... The stowaway from the title is the daughter of a scientist; both her and her father had found a Martian robot, only to have it destroy itself before they could show others, which led to them being painted as frauds. The daughter, Joan, sneaks onto the British rocket in an attempt to prove life on Mars and clear her and her father's names.
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