After arriving at Space Station One, in the orbit of Earth, from which all interplanetary journeys start, he begins the three-month trip to Mars. Martin Gibson, a famous science fiction author, is travelling to Mars, as a guest of the crew of the spaceship Ares. The Sands of Mars was Clarke's first published novel. The story setting is that Mars has been surveyed but not fully explored on the ground. It is set principally on the planet Mars, which has been settled by humans and is used essentially as a research establishment. The story was published in 1951, before humans had achieved space flight. While he was already popular as a short story writer and as a magazine contributor, The Sands of Mars was also a prelude to Clarke's becoming one of the world's foremost writers of science fiction novels. The Sands of Mars (also titled Sands of Mars) is a science fiction novel by English writer Arthur C.
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