Sleepers Of Mars

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Printed and bound in Great Britain for Hodder and Stoughton Paperbacks, a division of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.,

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Kent (Editorial Office: 47 Bedford Square, London, WC1 3DP) by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk

The fiction writers have toyed with the notion of travelling to the planets for two centuries or more. But to foresee in the thirties the day when both America and Russia would engage in systematic efforts to explore the surface of Mars, through ingenious rocket machines, with the final object of setting human foot upon that planet, would appear to rely on something more than imaginative guesswork.

In the years before World War II interrupted his writings, the late John Wyndham was a keen observer of the first tentative experiments in rocket propulsion. While others scoffed at the prophecies of those who pioneered the science of astronautics, he lent a sympathetic ear to their aspirations—and found in them inspiration for his tales.

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