R. R. Winterbotham 3 hr 35 min read

When Gail Loring chooses Bill Drake as her husband in name only for the flight to Mars, she little dreams what revenge, romance, and peril await them on the red planet.

R. R. Winterbotham's 1962 novel is a rousing colonization space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age SF. Read it for a colorful Monarch Books adventure of a fraught marriage-of-convenience and a dangerous expedition to Mars, where personal tensions and alien perils collide, in a fast-moving, entertaining golden-age tale of the red planet.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 35 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Ralph Brillhart