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.