Stowaway to Mars

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Olivia Dowd

Aircraft designer Dale Currance undertakes a journey to Mars in an effort to capture the prize being offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary journey, but a female stowaway throws his plans into disarray.

An international prize of one billion has been offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary trip, and Dale Curtance, a millionaire adventurer, emerges as the British entrant. With a hand-picked crew, he blasted off from Salisbury Plain in the spaceship Gloria Mundi, destination—the planet Mars. Once free of Earth's atmosphere, they discover a stowaway—a woman. Her extraordinary story helps them prepare for the dangers they encounter on the Red Planet, and the fantastic world that exists there.

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Highly imaginative with Wyndham’s usual social commentary.

Feels like tech has caught up with this book in its discussion of robot sentience. I like the choice of a woman’s voice as reader. Some dated notions about women.

A brilliant philosophical classic

A classic science fiction story, this would make an excellent miniseries, if only it could be done correctly. Unfortunately, the likelihood of any television production to avoid completely ruining it…