Stanley G. Weinbaum 36 min read

With only two weeks left before the Ares must leave Mars, chemist Dick Jarvis and his companions push deeper into the red planet's mysteries, and toward the Valley of Dreams and its ancient secrets.

Stanley G. Weinbaum's 1934 story, sequel to the landmark 'A Martian Odyssey,' is a classic first-contact space opera. Vivid, wondrous, superbly told. Read it for more of Weinbaum's brilliantly imagined Mars and its unforgettable aliens, the further adventures of Jarvis and Tweel among the wonders of a dying world, from the writer who revolutionized the alien in science fiction.

In its time

Published in 1934, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

36 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).