Arthur C. Clarke · 1951 · Novel
Martin Gibson, a famous science fiction author, is travelling to Mars, as a guest of the crew of the spaceship Ares. After arriving at Space Station One, in the orbit of Earth, from which all interplanetary journeys start, he makes the trip to Mars. The youngest crew member, Jimmy Spencer, who is still in training to be an astronaut, is assigned the task of answering his questions about the technology of space flight, and they become friends. Gibson tells him about his early life, revealing that he had to leave Cambridge University because of a nervous breakdown and never completed his studies.
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Tags: FictionScience fictionEnglish fictionFiction, science fiction, generalInterplanetary voyagesEnglish Science fiction
isfdb_id: 743721
openlibrary_id: OL17406W
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