![]() The trip is along the frozen Martian canals (it’s Winter) in a skate boat. Jim takes along his native Martian pet, Willis, who is a Bouncer, a round fur covered ball the size of a vollyball, who is about as intelligent as a human child and has a photographic memory for sounds, which he can also reproduce perfectly. ![]() On Mars, colonial teenagers Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton travel to the Lowell Academy boarding school for the start of the academic year. ![]() The novel is set in the future when Mars has been colonized by humans, but is administered by a governor appointed by the Earth government and the colonists have no political power. It represents the first appearance of Heinlein’s idealized Martian elder race, which will reappear in Stranger in a Strange Land. bad guys with the Martians caught in the middle. Juvenile novel # 3Ĭolonists on Mars: ever a popular science fiction storyline. Scribner’s 1949, hardcover and paperback. ![]()
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