词条 | No Man Friday |
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| name = No Man Friday | title_orig = | translator = | image = No Man Friday.jpg | caption = First edition cover | author = Rex Gordon | illustrator = | cover_artist = Bruce Roberts | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = Science fiction | publisher = Heinemann | published = 1956 | media_type = Print (hardback) | pages = 201 pp | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} No Man Friday (also known in the United States as First on Mars) is a British science fiction novel by Rex Gordon (Stanley Bennett Hough)[1] published in 1956. The reference in the original title is to Robinson Crusoe, and the story can be described as a science fiction robinsonade set on Mars. The similarity is made explicit by the first edition cover. Plot summaryA British rocket, developed at minimal cost and kept secret from officialdom, lifts off from the Woomera rocket range on a mission to Mars. During the voyage, an accident in the airlock kills the entire crew except for engineer Gordon Holder, the novel's narrator, who was returning from an EVA and still in his space suit. The rocket reaches Mars but crash-lands. There, Holder learns how to produce oxygen and water, also discovering more about Martian species and nourishment. Eventually, he starts cooperating with the titanic inhabitants of the planet to survive. After fifteen years, an American mission lands, thinking themselves the first to reach Mars. Holder contacts the Americans, and then tries to return to the dominant Martian beings, but is prevented from reaching them. He returns to Earth with the Americans. Martian creaturesIn his book, Rex Gordon describes Mars as a planet inhabited by different kinds of life forms.
References1. ^Rex Gordon in the SF Encyclopedia External links
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