EDISON'S CONQUEST OF MARS
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
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DEDICATED
to
GARRETT PUTMAN SERVISS
A COSMOPOLITE IN TIME
1851-1929
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 EIGHTEENThe 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."
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