Martians Go Home [Import] [Paperback]

Fredric Brown (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Grafton (1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0586071644
• ISBN-13: 978-0586071649
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,211,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Martians are coming, the Martians are coming!, May 23, 2003

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Betti Trapp - See all my reviews

This review is from: Martians Go Home (Paperback)

This book is absolutely adorable. It is science fiction with a humorous attitude, but indeed, the Martians have arrived. It's slightly reminiscent of Welle's famous Martian arrival, with the exception that these Martians are real, and they have definitely arrived. They first appear to Luke Devereaux, a struggling writer who has borrowed a lone cabin in the middle of nowhere to try to break his writer's block. An ominous knock on the door. Yet no prior sound of a car so far out in the desert, cautiously Luke opens the door. And so it begins. Yes, they ARE little green men, and they are everywhere, and sanity becomes a matter of degrees for most earthlings. And the Martians stay. And stay. And stay. One must get used to living with these irritating, caustic, sarcastic little green things that can pop in and out anytime and anywhere, and wreak havoc on anyone and anything. The human race is being driven crazy! The Martians have no harmful intent it seems, except to disrupt the lives of everyone on earth. They simply must be dealt with. Written in 1955, this story gets an A+ in my book. I had just randomly grabbed it off my shelf for a quick-read. I was immediately hooked and was finished in two days. This book needs to be on the bestseller list!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Humorous SF, with a nice sense of symmetry....., December 18, 2000

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"davistucker" (Harahan, Louisiana USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Martians, Go Home (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one that I read many moons ago & still keep on a shelf alongside my many other dog-eared paperback SF classics. If you ever notice a movie version of this story on TV, please don't pre-judge the book-just switch the channel, because the movie is wretched. The book, however, cleverly brings in elements such a mass-media system that dominates the world economy (and places it in a most vulnerable position), a burgeoning quick-fix mental health industry, and a new twist on the paranoid notion of a mass invasion by our neighbors from the Red Planet. If you like classic SF from the 1950's and happen to find this one in a used book store, pick it up and enjoy it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Little Book, October 2, 2007

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Garry Daniel (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Martians Go Home (Paperback)

This is one great little book. I say "little" because it's very short...like little green martians. Anyway.. Buy the book and enjoy.
I bought the paperback way back in 1976 and every few years or so I give it another read. It has never lost anything for me, and I still find myself laughing as if I were reading it for the first time. Just think of it...Martians invade Earth with no intent to take over or destroy us. They don't even arrive in spaceships. They just kwim. We can't even touch them. We end up doing all the harm to ourselves! Great concept for a book. Great departure from the usual MARTIANS ATTACK EARTH type of novel.
It's even more astounding when you realize the book was first published in 1955. Great book. Read it and laugh.