Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net EDISON'S CONQUEST OF MARS BY GARRETT P. SERVISS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. LANGLEY SEARLES, Ph. D. CARCOSA HOUSE 1947 LOS ANGELES The special contents of this volume are copyright 1947 by CARCOSA HOUSE. FIRST EDITION [Transcriber's note: This is a Rule 6 Clearance. PG has not been able to find a U.S. Copyright Renewal] DEDICATED to GARRETT PUTMAN SERVISS A COSMOPOLITE IN TIME 1851-1929 TABLE OF CONTENTS _Introduction_ CHAPTER ONE _"Let Us Go To Mars"_ CHAPTER TWO _The Disintegrator_ CHAPTER THREE _The Congress of Nations_ CHAPTER FOUR _To Conquer Another World_ CHAPTER FIVE _The Footprint on the Moon_ CHAPTER SIX _The Monsters on the Asteroid_ CHAPTER SEVEN _A Planet of Gold_ CHAPTER EIGHT _"The Martians are Coming!"_ CHAPTER NINE _Journey's End_ CHAPTER TEN _The Great Smoke Barrier_ CHAPTER ELEVEN _The Earth Girl_ CHAPTER TWELVE _Retreat to Deimos_ CHAPTER THIRTEEN _There Were Giants in the Earth_ CHAPTER FOURTEEN _The Flood Gates of Mars_ CHAPTER FIFTEEN _Vengeance is Ours_ CHAPTER SIXTEEN _The Woman From Ceres_ CHAPTER SEVENTEEN _The Fearful Oaths of Colonel Smith_ CHAPTER EIGHTEEN _The Great Ovation_ _Bibliography_ ILLUSTRATIONS _"Like men, and yet not like men...."_ _"... rising out of the shadow of the globe...."_ _"A consultation in Wizard Edison's laboratory...."_ _"Through this the meteor had passed...."_ _"... the ruins of ... an ancient watch tower."_ _"... another of our ships ... was destroyed."_ _"Two of the Martians were stretched dead upon the ground."_ _"He might have been a match for twenty of us."_ _"... he proceeded to teach us ... words of his language."_ _"... approaching from the eastward a large airship...."_ _"... a human being here on Mars!"_ _"The gigantic statue of their leader is THE GREAT SPHINX!"_ _"It was a panic of giants."_ These illustrations are a selection of the best from the original newspaper installments and were redrawn for this volume by Bernard Manley, Jr., of Chicago, Illinois. INTRODUCTION