Sands of Mars Author:Arthur C. Clarke First Edition copyright 1952 — Inside cover: Once in a great while a book is published which deserves the description of "a rare and excpetional treat." Sands of Mars is such a book. — Among the innumerable science fiction books appearing nowadays to many are plainly fictitious, lacking the strength of reality. Not so this remarkiable novel. This ... more »is a novel which is vibrantly alive,m consistent with truths. It is soundly, not wildly imaginative and the reader is certain to be left with a profound impression; this is a story of tomorrow which the author, with complete believability, has brought to life today.« less