Martians, Go Home

by Fredric Brown

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345253140
• ISBN13: 9780345253149
• Release Date: August 1976
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Martians Go Home

The book arrived earilier than expected and in "perfect" condition for not so current book. And the "sender" followed up with quiry on my satisfaction. That is excellent service.

Excellent Little Book

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.

"____________ you, Mack!"

This novel was WAAAY ahead of its time! In 1955, most people still took seriously the idea that weirdly humanoid beings could populate the outer planets. That anyone could write a wittily sarcastic book about little green men who don't carry ray guns or shoot anything out of their eyes but simply drive Earthlings crazy with their obnoxious behavior back then is simply amazing. While mainstream America was hiding under its collective (uh, no pinko connotation intended...honest!) desk listening for incoming ICBMs, Fredric Brown was at his typewriter making fun of his laughably serious countrymen. Completely devoid of political epithets or any other profanity, this book nonetheless makes some serious points about how ridiculous we Terran primates are. What else amazes me is how hard to find this book is and that it's out of print. I seriously would have expected it to become a classic (by now in its twenty-seventh printing or so) and the gag line "____ you, Mack!" the sort of catch phrase that Da Tumminada's "Hasta la vista, Baby!" has become.

The Martians are coming, the Martians are coming!

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!

Funnies SF Book ever read...!

Yes, it is the funnies SF book I've ever read. Read it along with authors like H. Harrison (Bill, the Galactic Hero) or Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide). I wonder why this fine book is out of print. Order it anyway!!!