1899- Journey to Mars by Billy Kring & George Wier

Author:Billy Kring & George Wier [Kring, Billy & Wier, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: spaceship robots Mars aliens vampires
Publisher: Flagstone Books
Published: 2015-03-09T22:00:00+00:00

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He turned to Ekka and said, “Here we go!”

Billy slammed forward all the levers at once, instantly reversing the transmogrifier’s spin and forcing the Argent to decelerate from twenty thousand miles per hour to fifty miles per hour in a mere moment.

The increase in gravity from the incredible deceleration pushed everyone into their seats until the metal bases groaned, and the blood left their heads, leaving Avi and Edgar momentarily unconscious. The Roof of the Argent visibly flattened toward the floor and rivets splanged from the ceiling to ricochet across the ship like hard-thrown marbles. Wood splintered along the walls as it compressed, and the ship shuddered as if in a terrible death spasm. Groans and creaks and screeching metal sounds echoed throughout the ship, and whiffs of white smoke drifted from the engine room that housed the transmogrifier, which shuddered so strongly that the entire vessel’s framework was in danger of buckling.

The singleships could not stop and shot by the Argent. They crashed in violent explosions in the canal bottom like a deluge of fiery raindrops falling from a demon’s thunderstorm. The entire canal blazed with fire as the singleships crashed into the red planet.

Billy forced the nose upward and the Argent banged hard into the canal soil and rebounded into the air as it kept the fifty-mile per hour forward momentum. Billy worked the controls as his dizziness cleared and he slowed the ship enough so that the next touchdown allowed them to skid on the sandy surface for two hundred yards before coming to a stop.

Edgar said in wonder, “We are on Barsoom.”

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