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Two planets / by Kurd Lasswitz ; abridged by Erich Lasswitz ; translated by Hans H. Rudnick ; afterword by Mark R. Hillegas.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lasswitz, Kurd, 1848-1910, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Auf zwei planeten. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Martians.
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Mars (Planet)--Fiction.
- Mars (Planet).
- Martians--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (autograph, May 1973) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Popular Library, 1978.
- Summary:
- Explorers find a Martian colony at the North Pole. The Martians want to share their knowledge with earth in exchange for a supply of air and energy, but human folly leads to war.
- Notes:
- Cover art: Gene Szafran.
- "Two Planets is the first English translation of Auf zwei Planeten by Kurd Lasswitz (Leipzig: Verlag B. Elischer Nachfolger, 1897), abridged by Erich Lasswitz (Donauworth: Cassianeum, 1948). This edition is published by special arrangement with Frau Margarethe Lasswitz. Incidental parts of the present text are taken from the 1969 abridgement of Auf zwei Planeten edited by Burckhardt Kiegeland and Martin Molitor, published by Verlag Heinrich Scheffler (Frankfurt/Main, 1969), and are used by permission of the publisher."
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Science Fiction Database, 251723
- OCLC:
- 12492037
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