@RUTGERS.ARPA:GIDEON@SU-SCORE.ARPA (01/28/85)
From: Andrew "Droid" Gideon <GIDEON@SU-SCORE.ARPA> Office Phone: (415) 497-4816/9717 "Edison's Conquest of Mars" was, as I recall, a sequel to War_of_the_Worlds. I recall enjoying it long ago, but I do not recall where to find it again. Does anyone out there know it, and/or where it can be found? -Andy Gideon ARPA: Gideon@SU-Score "My stars, it's full of God!" -------
@RUTGERS.ARPA:boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (02/01/85)
From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Jerry Boyajian) > From: Andrew "Droid" Gideon <GIDEON@SU-SCORE.ARPA> > "Edison's Conquest of Mars" was, as I recall, a sequel to > War_of_the_Worlds. I recall enjoying it long ago, but I > do not recall where to find it again. > > Does anyone out there know it, and/or where it can be found? Well, to give you a complete history, Garrett P. Serviss' novel, EDISON'S CONQUEST OF MARS was originally serialized in THE NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL in 1898, within a couple of months of Well's WAR OF THE WORLDS making its first appearance in the magazine COSMOPOLITAN (no relation to the current magazine). It remained unpublished in book form until a small press, Carcosa House (no relation to Karl Edward Wagner's current publishing outfit), published it in 1947. The novel remained out-of-print until it was published in paperback in abridged form (edited by Forrest J Ackerman) in 1969 by Powell Books, under the title INVASION OF MARS. Just a few short years later, Ackerman again reprinted it, this time under the title PURSUIT TO MARS, as a serial in PERRY RHODAN, when he changed the RHODAN books into a book-format magazine. It appeared in PERRY RHODAN #16-22 (1972-1973). It's my guess that this is where you first read it. There. Aren't you sorry now that you asked? --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <"Bibliography is my business">