THE sun sank slowly down beneath the crest of razor-backed hills, its last long rays spilling out over the desert in a golden flood of light. Great piled dunes of scarlet sand took up the faint crimson beams and cast them back and forth in flashing cascades of eery brightness ... They faded, vanished. Night, sudden and complete, dropped with soundless speed over the desert. Over the edge of the distant hills the racing moons of Mars swiftly rose, spilled pale light down over the sand. A faint wind came, and brushed along the dunes with light fingers, whispering ...
"Exiles of Mars" is a free read, but you have to download the whole pulp magazine in CBZ format in order to read it. Thanks to Tinko Valia of Variety SF for the tip!
Hi Paul,
ReplyDeleteAnother martian story in Wonder Stories Quarterly september 1930 (p.346) "A Rescue in Space" by Lowell (!) Howard Morrow.
Opening lines:
"The two golden moons hung low over the red Martian landscape, casting a mellow glow over mountain, plain and sea."
Thanks, Doc Mars. I did not see that one!
ReplyDeleteHi Paul,
ReplyDeletethe two stories in pdf here:
http://gotomars.free.fr/Exiles of Mars.pdf
http://gotomars.free.fr/A Rescue in Space.pdf