Colónia de Marte

"The House That Stood Still", (1950), a.k.a. Undercover Aliens / The Mating Cry '-' A. E. van Vogt regressa à Colecção Argonauta com uma das suas obras mais curiosas e sugestivas: "Colónia de Marte", título que contém, como o leitor verá, uma certa dose de ironia, inscreve-se numa linha de continuidade que é uma constante da obra de Van Vogt, bem representada nesta colecção através dos seus romances mais marcantes: A Guerra Contra o Rull, A Astronave Pirata, Missão Interplanetária, Slan, Xadrez Cósmico e Rumo ao Universo...
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'A thrilling tale of a struggle to save Earth from Armageddon, written by one of the crucial authors of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Disaster is quickly approaching and the only ones who know of it are Allison Stephens and a group of ancient sinister aliens. Now the aliens plan to abandon Earth and seek a new home'. . . "An alien spacecraft that crash-landed over a thousand years ago and the radiation that it gave off turned a group of Toltecs willing to help the robotic craft repair itself, immortality. However they rendered the craft unable to return to the stars, to take advantage of the knowledge they received and the immortality. It begins and maintains a murder mystery feel throughout".

[About the Author] Alfred Elton van Vogt (1912–2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author. He was considered to be one of the most prolific, yet complex, science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century.

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