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From: Andrew "Droid" Gideon 

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"Edison's Conquest of Mars" was, as I recall, a sequel to 
War_of_the_Worlds.  I recall enjoying it long ago, but I
do not recall where to find it again.

Does anyone out there know it, and/or where it can be found?

				-Andy Gideon
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From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Jerry Boyajian)

> From: Andrew "Droid" Gideon 

> "Edison's Conquest of Mars" was, as I recall, a sequel to 
> War_of_the_Worlds.  I recall enjoying it long ago, but I
> do not recall where to find it again.
>
> Does anyone out there know it, and/or where it can be found?

Well, to give you a complete history, Garrett P. Serviss' novel,
EDISON'S CONQUEST OF MARS was originally serialized in THE NEW
YORK EVENING JOURNAL in 1898, within a couple of months of Well's
WAR OF THE WORLDS making its first appearance in the magazine
COSMOPOLITAN (no relation to the current magazine). It remained
unpublished in book form until a small press, Carcosa House (no
relation to Karl Edward Wagner's current publishing outfit),
published it in 1947.
	The novel remained out-of-print until it was published in
paperback in abridged form (edited by Forrest J Ackerman) in 1969
by Powell Books, under the title INVASION OF MARS. Just a few short
years later, Ackerman again reprinted it, this time under the title
PURSUIT TO MARS, as a serial in PERRY RHODAN, when he changed the
RHODAN books into a book-format magazine.
	It appeared in PERRY RHODAN #16-22 (1972-1973). It's my
guess that this is where you first read it. There. Aren't you
sorry now that you asked?


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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