A MARTIAN ODYSSEY Literature 1934. Written by Stanley G. Weinbaum. | |||
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BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU | |||||
1 | Ares | BBB | Vehicles | Spacecrafts | |
Ares Spaceship. | |||||
2 | Fancy Long | BBB | Music | Musicians | |
Fancy Long Singer: "I was tired, as I said. I kept thinking of a good hot meal, and then from that I jumped to reflections of how nice and home-like even Borneo would seem after this crazy planet, and from that, to thoughts of little old New York, and then to thinking about a girl I know there, Fancy Long. Know her?" "Vision entertainer," said Harrison. "I've tuned her in. Nice blonde - dances and sings on the Yerba Mate hour." | |||||
3 | Thermo-skin Sleeping Bag | BBB | Goods | Sporting Goods | |
Thermo-skin Sleeping Bag High tech sleeping bag: "Of course I took a thermo-skin sleeping bag for these wintry Martian nights." | |||||
4 | The Yerba Mate Hour | BBB | Television | TV Shows | |
The Yerba Mate Hour TV show: "I was tired, as I said. I kept thinking of a good hot meal, and then from that I jumped to reflections of how nice and home-like even Borneo would seem after this crazy planet, and from that, to thoughts of little old New York, and then to thinking about a girl I know there, Fancy Long. Know her?" "Vision entertainer," said Harrison. "I've tuned her in. Nice blonde - dances and sings on the Yerba Mate hour." | |||||
MAKE BELIEVE MAP | |||||
5 | Mudheap City | Map | Urban Areas | Cities | |
Mudheap City Abandoned city on Mars: "We approached the canal slowly, I remembered that this one was bordered by a wide fringe of vegetation and that Mudheap City was on it. | |||||
6 | Thyle I | Map | Nature | Natural Areas | |
Thyle I Desert on Mars: "If I were right, I ought to hit another gray plain, the Mare Chronium in another couple of hundred miles, and then another orange desert, Thyle I or II. And so I did." | |||||
7 | Thyle II | Map | Nature | Natural Areas | |
Thyle II Desert on Mars: "If I were right, I ought to hit another gray plain, the Mare Chronium in another couple of hundred miles, and then another orange desert, Thyle I or II. And so I did." | |||||
8 | Xanthus | Map | Nature | Natural Areas | |
Xanthus Desert on Mars: "I figured that we were right in our guess, then, and this gray plain we dropped on was really the Mare Cimmerium which would make my orange desert the region called Xanthus." | |||||
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9 | The Ares Expedition | Other | Plans | Initiatives | |
The Ares Expedition The first human beings to set foot on Mars. | |||||
10 | Biopods | Other | Living Things | Animals | |
Biopods Plant-animal creatures on Mars: "So, with the speed and the altitude and the blurring caused by the under- jets, the seeing wasn't any too good. I could see enough, though, to distinguish that what I sailed over was just more of this gray plain that we'd been examining the whole week since our landing - same blobby growths and the same eternal carpet of crawling little plant-animals, or biopods, as Leroy calls them. So I sailed along, calling back my position every hour as instructed, and not knowing whether you heard me." | |||||
11 | Dream Beast | Other | Living Things | Animals | |
Dream Beast Creature on Mars: "You're right!" said Jarvis soberly. "In a way, you're right. The dream- beast! That's the best name for it - and it's the most fiendish, terrifying creation one could imagine! More dangerous than a lion, more insidious than a snake!" |
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