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The Sands of Mars

Name: The Sands of Mars
Rating: 3.76 (5044 reviews)
Author: Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke November 1, 1951

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Space writers holiday. When a celebrated science fiction writer takes to space on his first trip to Mars, he’s sure to be in for some heckling from the spaceship crew. But Martin Gibson, man about space, takes it all in his stride. That is, until he lands on the red planet. Once there the intrepid author causes one problem after another as he stumbles upon Mars’s most carefully hidden secrets and threatens the future of an entire planet!

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