A Martian Odyssey

by Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley G. Weinbaum’s landmark tale of Mars replaces stock monsters with genuine strangeness, discovery, and one of pulp science fiction’s most memorable encounters.

At a glance A Martian Odyssey remains one of the decisive early stories of modern science fiction… Weinbaum follows an explorer across the Martian landscape and stages an encounter that… Why read A Martian Odyssey today? The story still feels fresh because its imagination is disciplined by curiosity.

What kind of classic is it?

About this book An expedition on Mars becomes a tense and unexpectedly comic encounter with a truly unfamiliar form of intelligence.