PUBLISHER’S NOTE

The Red Journey Back is a companion-story to the famous book The Angry Planet, published some few years ago in the United States of America, Great Britain, and Europe, and also broadcast as a radio serial play in the BBC Light Programme from London.

But although some of the original characters reappear, and the adventures on Mars of the Albatross explorers are continued in the old “authentic vein,” this present tale is quite self-contained and can be read whether or not you have ever come across its predecessor.

When sending us the manuscript from his home in Devon, England, the author-editor said in his covering letter: “As to a dedication, I feel I can do no better than to inscribe this new account of life and adventure in the Martian wastes to those friendly readers in all countries who not only wrote saying that they had enjoyed The Angry Planet, but were flattering enough to a humble author to ask for more. There were far too many, alas, for me to have been able to send individual replies, as I should certainly have wished to do; and so this whole book is in the nature of a communal ‘open letter’ to those friends: I hope most sincerely that they will enjoy it too.”