Through Space to Mars

Through Space to Mars is a Science Fiction Adventure Book. This book describes that Two of the highest-ranking students of the Universal Electrical and Chemical College, Jack Darrow and Mark Sampson, are world travelers -- for they already have trips to the North Pole, South Pole, and the Center of the Earth beneath their belts! Although their college research work is going well, a mysterious summons calls them back to the side of their mentor, Professor Henderson". Boys", he says", you must excuse me for not saying why I sent for you. My guest, Mr. Roumann, has laid a strange proposition before me. I hardly know what to think. Mr. Roumann has proposed a wonderful trip to --" "To planet Mars!" bursts out Mr. Roumann". We are going to make the most wonderful journey on record. A trip through space! Such an opportunity for reaching it, and proving whether or not there is life there, will not occur again for many years. It is now but thirty-five millions of miles away from us. Soon it will begin to recede -- at the rate of twenty-eight millions of miles a year!" Roy Rockwood's "Through Space to Mars", written in the early years of the 20th century, remains a refreshing, optimistic space adventure for young-at-heart readers even a century later.