Sleepers of Mars
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Sleepers of Mars is a collection of early short stories by John Wyndham
, published after his death, in 1973 by Coronet Books.
The collection includes:
John Wyndham
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes...
, published after his death, in 1973 by Coronet Books.
The collection includes:
- Sleepers of Mars (1939), a sequel to the novel Stowaway to MarsStowaway to MarsStowaway to Mars is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham. It was first published in 1936 as Planet Plane , then serialised in The Passing Show as Stowaway to Mars and again in 1937 in Modern Wonder magazine as The Space Machine. The novel was written under one of Wyndham's early pen names, John...
, in which a Russian expedition finds the remains of Martian civilisation. - Worlds to Barter (1931), telling of the descendents of the human race travelling back in time to take over the current Earth.
- Invisible Monster (1933), featuring an invisible alien on the loose after the return of a space expedition.
- The Man from Earth (1934), in which a human sent on a mission to Venus wakes up in the far future as the last human alive.
- The Third Vibrator (1933), a cautionary tale in which the inventor of a super-weapon has a vision of how it previously destroyed AtlantisAtlantisAtlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....
and LemuriaLemuria (continent)Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The concept's 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography; however, the concept of Lemuria has been rendered obsolete by modern theories of plate tectonics...
.