EDISON'S CONQUEST OF MARS

BY GARRETT P. SERVISS.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. LANGLEY SEARLES, Ph. D.

CARCOSA HOUSE
1947
LOS ANGELES

The special contents of this volume are copyright 1947 by CARCOSA HOUSE.

FIRST EDITION

[Transcriber's note: This is a Rule 6 Clearance. PG has not been able to find a U.S. Copyright Renewal]

DEDICATED
to
GARRETT PUTMAN SERVISS

A COSMOPOLITE IN TIME
1851-1929

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE "Let Us Go To Mars"
CHAPTER TWO The Disintegrator
CHAPTER THREE The Congress of Nations
CHAPTER FOUR To Conquer Another World
CHAPTER FIVE The Footprint on the Moon
CHAPTER SIX The Monsters on the Asteroid
CHAPTER SEVEN A Planet of Gold
CHAPTER EIGHT "The Martians are Coming!"
CHAPTER NINE Journey's End
CHAPTER TEN The Great Smoke Barrier
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Earth Girl
CHAPTER TWELVE Retreat to Deimos
CHAPTER THIRTEEN There Were Giants in the Earth
CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Flood Gates of Mars
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Vengeance is Ours
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Woman From Ceres
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Fearful Oaths of Colonel Smith
CHAPTER EIGHTEENThe Great Ovation
Bibliography

"Like men, and yet not like men...."

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Like men, and yet not like men...."

"... rising out of the shadow of the globe...."

"A consultation in Wizard Edison's laboratory...."

"Through this the meteor had passed...."

"... the ruins of ... an ancient watch tower."

"... another of our ships ... was destroyed."

"Two of the Martians were stretched dead upon the ground."

"He might have been a match for twenty of us."

"... he proceeded to teach us ... words of his language."

"... approaching from the eastward a large airship...."

"... a human being here on Mars!"

"The gigantic statue of their leader is THE GREAT SPHINX!"

"It was a panic of giants."

These illustrations are a selection of the best from the original newspaper installments and were redrawn for this volume by Bernard Manley, Jr., of Chicago, Illinois.

INTRODUCTION

If you picked up a magazine and read in it a story mentioning a passenger-carrying rocket driven by atomic power furnished by a substance prepared from uranium, you probably would not be greatly surprised. After all, such an