Valley of Dreams
Author: Stanley Weinbaum
Published: 1934
Source: Project Gutenberg
Two weeks before the Ares is scheduled to leave Mars, Captain Harrison sends
American chemist Dick Jarvis and French biologist "Frenchy" Leroy to retrieve
the film Jarvis took before his auxiliary rocket crashed into the Thyle
highlands the week before. Along the way, the Earthmen stop at the city of the
cart creatures and the site of the pyramid building creature for Leroy to take
some samples. After picking up the film canisters from the crashed rocket at
Thyle II, the two men fly east to Thyle I to look for signs of the birdlike
Martian, Tweel. […]
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