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100 1 _aSidney, F. H.
_q(Frederic H.),
_d1875-
245 1 2 _aA fishing trip on the planet Mars
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from The Overland Monthly, May 1919.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-15
508 _aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aA fishing trip on the planet Mars by F. H. Sidney is a short science fiction story written in the early 20th century. It imagines an Earth angler whisked to Mars for a canal-side sporting excursion among exotic wildlife and advanced technology. The narrator, failing to catch fish on Earth, is mysteriously drawn skyward by a Martian telescope-magnet and lands in a laboratory atop a Martian building. There he meets John Hopkins, a once-missing Earthman who has become a leading citizen on Mars, and Astrol, the inventor of the device. Hopkins explains Martian life—wireless electricity powers everything, English has been adopted, equal suffrage thrives, and predators have been eliminated—then treats his guest to a banquet, an airship tour, and a day of “radio rifle” fishing along crystal canals teeming with giant trout, leaping salmon, and flocks of birds beside herds of miniature bison and moose. After a final feast, the narrator is sent gently back toward Earth, awakens by his riverside spot, and realizes the marvelous visit was a dream he decides to keep to himself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cSan Francisco: Overland Monthly, co., 1919
653 _aShort stories
653 _aAmerican fiction -- 20th century
653 _aFishing stories
830 0 _aProduced from The Overland Monthly, May 1919.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/AFishingTripOnThePlanetMars/page/n1/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77464
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