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Edison's Conquest of Mars By: Garrett Putman Serviss (1851-1929) |
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BY GARRETT P. SERVISS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. LANGLEY SEARLES, Ph. D.
CARCOSA HOUSE
1947
LOS ANGELES The special contents of this volume are copyright 1947 by CARCOSA HOUSE.
FIRST EDITION [Transcriber's note: This is a Rule 6 Clearance. PG has not been able to
find a U.S. Copyright Renewal]
DEDICATED
to
GARRETT PUTMAN SERVISS A COSMOPOLITE IN TIME
1851 1929
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction CHAPTER ONE
"Let Us Go To Mars" CHAPTER TWO
The Disintegrator CHAPTER THREE
The Congress of Nations CHAPTER FOUR
To Conquer Another World CHAPTER FIVE
The Footprint on the Moon CHAPTER SIX
The Monsters on the Asteroid CHAPTER SEVEN
A Planet of Gold CHAPTER EIGHT
"The Martians are Coming!" CHAPTER NINE
Journey's End CHAPTER TEN
The Great Smoke Barrier CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Earth Girl CHAPTER TWELVE
Retreat to Deimos CHAPTER THIRTEEN
There Were Giants in the Earth CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The Flood Gates of Mars CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Vengeance is Ours CHAPTER SIXTEEN
The Woman From Ceres CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Fearful Oaths of Colonel Smith CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The Great Ovation Bibliography
ILLUSTRATIONS
"Like men, and yet not like men...." "... rising out of the shadow of the globe...." "A consultation in Wizard Edison's laboratory...." "Through this the meteor had passed...." "... the ruins of ... an ancient watch tower." "... another of our ships ... was destroyed." "Two of the Martians were stretched dead upon the ground." "He might have been a match for twenty of us." "... he proceeded to teach us ... words of his language." "... approaching from the eastward a large airship...." "... a human being here on Mars!" "The gigantic statue of their leader is THE GREAT SPHINX!" "It was a panic of giants."
These illustrations are a selection of the best from the original
newspaper installments and were redrawn for this volume by Bernard
Manley, Jr., of Chicago, Illinois.
INTRODUCTION
If you picked up a magazine and read in it a story mentioning a
passenger carrying rocket driven by atomic power furnished by a
substance prepared from uranium, you probably would not be greatly
surprised. After all, such an invention is today but a step or two ahead
of cold fact. But you might be surprised to learn that if this story was
A Columbus of Space , the one I happen to have in mind, your
grand parents may well have read it before you were born for A
Columbus of Space was published in All Story magazine in 1909, thirty
years before the potentialities of U235 were realized, and nearly forty
before the atomic bomb became a problem for people to think about. Did the author of this story simply make a lucky shot in the dark?
Perhaps; but let me tell those who are inclined to think so that he was
a Carnegie lecturer, a member of half a dozen learned societies, one of
the first to write a book on Einstein's theory of relativity, and an
internationally known figure in his specialty, astronomy. His name is
Garrett Putman Serviss. He was born on March 24, 1851, at Sharon Springs, New York, of native
New England stock. His interest in astronomy began as a boy, and was
greatly stimulated when he began to examine the beauties of the heavens
through a small telescope, the gift of his older brother. This
encouraged his enrolling in the course of science at Cornell University
in 1868 (its opening year) from which he was graduated in 1872. There
followed two years at the Columbia College Law School, which he left as
an LL. B.; and in June, 1874 he was admitted to the bar. He did not
practice law, however, but turned instead to newspaper reporting. Whence came this interest in law and journalism? We can only guess,
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