The Sands of Mars Author:Arthur C. Clarke Space Writer's Holiday- — When a celebrated science fiction writer takes to space on his first trip to Mars, he's sure to be in for some heckling from the spaceship's crew. — But Martin Gibson, man about space, take it all in his stride. That is, until he lands on the red planet. Once there, the intrepid author causes one problem after another a... more »s he stumbles upon Mars's most carefully hidden secrets and threatens the future of an entire planet!« less