West o' Mars

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West o' Mars

by Charles L. Fontenay

EN·~34 minutes·2 chapters

Chapters

2 total

Part 1

31:43

Part 2

2:35

Description

In the year 2081 a charismatic interplanetary salesman finds himself invited to the legendary West o’ Mars, a soaring tower perched above the desolate Aeolia Desert. Inside the dim‑lit Dice Room, he shares cigars with the enigmatic architect Samlaan Britt, whose solitary wealth and isolated gardens mask a tangled past. Their conversation drifts from the physics of Martian gravity to a personal theory that every great achievement hides the quiet influence of a woman.

As Peache probes the myths surrounding the tower—tales of dice‑roll fortunes, bitter love, and hidden graves—he discovers that the truth may be as fragile as the thin Martian air. The story blends speculative world‑building with witty philosophical debate, inviting listeners to wonder how ambition, memory, and longing shape the daring structures humanity erects among the stars.

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Language

en

Duration

~34 minutes (32K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

New York, NY: Royal Publications, Inc., 1958.

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2023-10-19

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Charles L. Fontenay

Charles L. Fontenay

1917–2007

A longtime newspaperman who also built a steady career in science fiction, he wrote with the clarity of a reporter and the curiosity of a lifelong storyteller. His work ranged from short fiction in the pulp and digest magazines to later novels that kept him connected to the genre for decades.

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