The Sands of Mars
Last updated October 31, 2026
Martin Gibson, a well-known science fiction writer, travels to Mars for the first time to report on the small human colony there. He expects to find the frontier he imagined in his fiction. Instead he finds a hard-working settlement in conflict with Earth's officials, a secret scientific project that could change the planet, and signs of native Martian life. Arthur C. Clarke's early novel imagines what settling another world might really require.
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