Monster of Mars
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Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) was an experienced pulp science fiction writer as well as a comic book writer who scripted many issues of Superman.
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Monster of Mars - Edmond Hamilton
Monsters of Mars
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Three Martian-duped Earth-men swing open the gates of space that for so long had barred the greedy hordes of the Red Planet.
Allan Randall stared at the man before him. And that’s why you sent for me, Milton?
he finally asked.
There was a moment’s silence, in which Randall’s eyes moved as though uncomprehendingly from the face of Milton to those of the two men beside him. The four sat together at the end of a roughly furnished and electric-lit living-room, and in that momentary silence there came in to them from the outside night the distant pounding of the Atlantic upon the beach. It was Randall who first spoke again.
The other’s face was unsmiling. That’s why I sent for you, Allan,
he said quietly. To go to Mars with us to-night!
To Mars!
he repeated. Have you gone crazy, Milton—or is this some joke you’ve put up with Lanier and Nelson here?
Milton shook his head gravely. It is not a joke, Allan. Lanier and I are actually going to flash out over the gulf to the planet Mars to-night. Nelson must stay here, and since we wanted three to go I wired you as the most likely of my friends to make the venture.
But good God!
Randall exploded, rising. You, Milton, as a physicist ought to know better. Space-ships and projectiles and all that are but fictionists’ dreams.
We are not going in either space-ship or projectile,
said Milton calmly. And then as he saw his friend’s bewilderment he rose and led the way to a door at the room’s end, the other three following him into the room beyond.
*
It was a long laboratory of unusual size in which Randall found himself, one in which every variety of physical and electrical apparatus seemed represented. Three huge dynamo-motor arrangements took up the room’s far end, and from them a tangle of wiring led through square black condensers and transformers to a battery of great tubes. Most remarkable, though, was the object at the room’s center.
It was like a great double cube of dull metal, being in effect two metal cubes each twelve feet square, supported a few feet above the floor by insulated standards. One side of each cube was open, exposing the hollow interiors of the two cubical chambers. Other wiring led from the big electronic tubes and from the dynamos to the sides of the two cubes.
The four men gazed at the enigmatic thing for a time in silence. Milton’s strong, capable face showed only in its steady eyes what feelings were his, but Lanier’s younger countenance was alight with excitement; and so too to some degree was that of Nelson. Randall simply stared at the thing, until Milton nodded toward it.
That,
he said, is what will flash us out to Mars to-night.
Randall could only turn his stare upon the other, and Lanier chuckled. Can’t take it in yet, Randall? Well, neither could I when the idea was first sprung on us.
*
Milton nodded to seats behind them, and as the half-dazed Randall sank into one the physicist faced him earnestly.
"Randall, there isn’t much time now, but I am going to tell you what I have been doing in the last two years on this God-forsaken Maine coast. I have been for those two years in unbroken communication by radio with beings on the planet Mars!
"It was