A Martian Odyssey

A Martian “lawn” parts to let a man pass—and closes behind him. Then Dick Jarvis hears whistles and caws on a bleak plain and finds a birdlike stranger tangled in black, ropy arms.

In Weinbaum’s imagined twenty-first century, the first human expedition to Mars has landed on a world that looks desolate, but is anything but empty. When Jarvis’s flying craft fails, the chemist faces an eight-hundred-mile trek across desert and strange terrain. He expects a hard walk, not a planet full of life he can barely understand—and now he must decide what to do about the creature being eaten before him. Tweel’s name is almost impossible to say; understanding him may prove harder still. What else is hidden in Mars’s quiet wastes, and can these two strangers survive together?

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