Charles L. Fontenay 3 hr 23 min read

Dark Kensington has been dead for twenty-five years, everyone knows it. Then he reappears, youthful and brilliant, to lead the rebel Phoenix in dangerous experiments in mutation and psionics.

Charles L. Fontenay's 1961 novel is a fast colonization and psi tale of revolution and forbidden science on Mars. Vivid, exciting golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing story where Martian rebels battling tyranny gamble everything on a resurrected leader and perilous new powers.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 23 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).