Novels

Library of Free Mars Reads: Novels


To 1899

Urania: A Romance, by Camille Flammarion (1889)

Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour, by Charles Dixon (1895)

Mars: As the Abode of Life, by Percival Lowell (1895)

Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World, by James Cowan (1896)

The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells (1898)

Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss (1898)



1900 to 1949

A Honeymoon in Space, by George Griffith (1901)

The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars: Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd, by Louis Pope Gratacap (1903)

Lieut. Gulliver Jones, by Edwin L. Arnold (1905)

Journeys to the Planet Mars, or, Our Mission to Ento (Mars): Being a Record of Visits Made to Ento (Mars), by By Sara Weiss (1905)

Zarlah the Martian, by R. Norman Grisewood (1909)

Through Space to Mars, or The Longest Journey on Record, by Roy Rockwood (1910)

To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story, by Mark Wicks (1911)

A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912/1917)

The Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1913/1918)

Warlord of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1919)

Thuvia, Maid of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1920)

The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation, by Eros Urides (1922)

The Chessmen of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1922)

Yezad: A Romance of the Unknown, by George Babcock (1922)

The Master Mind of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1927)


A Fighting Man of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1931)

Vandals of the Void, by James Morgan Walsh (1931) 

The Outlaws of Mars, by Otis Adelbert Kline (1933)

Star Begotten, by H.G. Wells (1937)

Synthetic Men of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1940)

"John Carter and the Giant of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Coleman Burroughs (1940s)

Devil’s Planet, by Manly Wade Wellman (1942)


Charles W. Harbaugh
Complete scientifiction novel
Thrilling Wonder Stories (Spring 1944)
"In quest of his pirate grandfather's hidden wealth, a valiant Martian rebel encounters adventure and romance on Sirius!"

Llana of Gathol, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1948)



1950 to 1999

Stand by for Mars!, by Carey Rockwell (1952)

Police Your Planet, by Lester del Rey (1956)

Badge of Infamy, by Lester del Rey (1957)

Rebels of the Red Planet, by Charles L. Fontenay (1961)

Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson (1992)



2000 to 2011

Winning Mars, by Jason Stoddard (2005)

The Argus Project, by A.R. Yngve (2006)

Mars Girl, by Jeff Garrity (2008)

The Mars Company, by Joseph Roberts (2008)

Return to Barsoom, by Scott Dutton (2009)

Queen of the Iron Sands, by Scott Lynch (2009)

The Colonisation of Mars, by Larry W. Richardson (2009)