Wicks, Mark
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? -? ) UK author whose To Mars Via the Moon: An Astronomical Story (1911) recounts the construction of a Spaceship capable of taking its bereaved solitary builder first to the Moon and then to Mars, which is described in accordance with the theories of Percival Lowell; here he finds a Utopia, and the Reincarnation of his dead son. He remains on Mars. [JC/PN]
Mark Wicks
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- To Mars Via the Moon: An Astronomical Story (London: Seeley and Company, 1911) [illus/hb/Mark Wicks]
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