Bergman.SoftArts@MIT-MULTICS@sri-unix.UUCP (09/27/83)
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, and its sequels.
I don't recall the author.
Welcome to Mars. I think maybe Arthur C. Clarke. One of the
Names, at any rate. About a teenager who somehow invents an
effective anti-gravity generator, and builds what is
effectively a soap-box spaceship. He and his girlfriend go to
Mars, crash just hard enough to be unable to leave, build a
spark-gap radio-beacon, and survive for a year and a half or
so. Until rescued, that is.
Danny Dunn and the (time machine, shrinking machine, invisible
submarine, etc., etc.)
--mike bergman
bergman.softarts@mit-multics
p.s. Apparently I was incorrect in the title of the reprint of
the Wall of Serpents. But I stand on its reprintedness.