VOYAGE TO THE RED PLANET
first edition
1990 · New York
by Bisson, Terry
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "In near-future America, NASA has been sold off to the Disney Corporation. A film producer commandeers the mothballed spacecraft 'Mary Poppins' and heads for Mars to shoot a location movie." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 405. "Hurls a fun-house crew to Mars, but does so within strict criteria of scientific verisimilitude, so that the spoof elements of the tale work as an elegy for a project no longer within the grasp of the human race." - John Clute. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-131. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with light rubbing at spine ends and two tiny, nearly invisible, pin-sized holes in spine panel. (#104007) (Inventory #: 104007)