Alone on Mars

I've recently found myself reading a couple of books about loneliness. One was No Man Friday by Rex Gordon aka, First on Mars. Rex Gordon is a pen name for Stanley Bennett Hough (1917 - 1998). This book was published in 1956 and I found my copy in a second hand shop. It provides an insight into ideas about space travel at this time, before the Apollo 11 Moon landing took place (1969). In this story we have Gordon Holder blasting off with a team in a British rocket from the Woomera rocket range in Australia and ending up alone and stranded on Mars where he has to figure out how to survive. [Continue reading...]