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Title: Edison's Conquest of Mars

Author: Garrett Putnam Serviss

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Language: English

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EDISON'S CONQUEST OF MARS

BY GARRETT P. SERVISS.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. LANGLEY SEARLES, Ph. D.

CARCOSA HOUSE
1947
LOS ANGELES

The special contents of this volume are copyright 1947 by CARCOSA HOUSE.
FIRST EDITION

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DEDICATED
to
GARRETT PUTMAN SERVISS

A COSMOPOLITE IN TIME
1851-1929

TABLE OF CONTENTS

_Introduction_

CHAPTER ONE
_"Let Us Go To Mars"_

CHAPTER TWO
_The Disintegrator_

CHAPTER THREE
_The Congress of Nations_

CHAPTER FOUR
_To Conquer Another World_

CHAPTER FIVE
_The Footprint on the Moon_

CHAPTER SIX
_The Monsters on the Asteroid_

CHAPTER SEVEN
_A Planet of Gold_

CHAPTER EIGHT
_"The Martians are Coming!"_

CHAPTER NINE
_Journey's End_

CHAPTER TEN
_The Great Smoke Barrier_

CHAPTER ELEVEN
_The Earth Girl_

CHAPTER TWELVE
_Retreat to Deimos_

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
_There Were Giants in the Earth_

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
_The Flood Gates of Mars_

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
_Vengeance is Ours_

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
_The Woman From Ceres_

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
_The Fearful Oaths of Colonel Smith_

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
_The Great Ovation_

_Bibliography_

ILLUSTRATIONS

_"Like men, and yet not like men...."_

_"... rising out of the shadow of the globe...."_

_"A consultation in Wizard Edison's laboratory...."_

_"Through this the meteor had passed...."_

_"... the ruins of ... an ancient watch tower."_

_"... another of our ships ... was dest