Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of
the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the
planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic
powers to Mars, Robert must navigate the dangers of the Red Planet
while trying to return to his fiancee on Earth. Through his
travels, we discover that Mars can not only support life but is
also home to three different types of vampires. This riveting
combination of science fiction and the adventure story provides a
vivid depiction of an imagined Mars and its strange, unearthly
creatures who might be closer to earthly humans than we would care
to believe. Originally published in French as two separate volumes,
translated as The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908) and The War of
the Vampires (1909), this vintage work is available to
English-language audiences unabridged for the first time and
masterfully translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson.
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