Book description
The World of the Dreamers
In 1965, when Mariner IV radioed back the vision of Mars as a planet
pocked with craters and unlikely to harbor life of any advanced sort,
some newspapers wondered how science-fiction writers would take this.
But, characteristic of their limitless imaginations, they came up with
their own answers.
A. Bertram Chandler presented this novel as his particularly
challenging response. If Mars is indeed barren, what are we to say of
the wonderfully lifelike Mars worlds of H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline, and so many others? They are too real
to be lost! They must exist somewhere! And so a space expedition heads
to that barren and lifeless Mars to find The Alternate Martians.
It's a science-fiction adventure, packed with action, and filled
with some unexpected Red Planet surprises!
A. Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction
writer with more than forty novels and 200 works of short fiction
published. He was known internationally for turning his personal
experiences as a maritime marine officer into realistic
characterization of a spaceship's crew. He won three Ditmar Awards for
achievement in Australian science fiction, as well as Japan's
prestigious Seiun Award.
