Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars | |
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Author(s) | William Morrison |
Cover artist | Ric Binkley |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
Publisher | Gnome Press |
Publication date | 1954 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 191 pp |
ISBN | NA |
OCLC Number | 5304913 |
Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars is a science fiction novel by William Morrison (pseudonym of Joseph Samachson). It was released in 1954 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies.
The novel concerns the adventures of a boy and his sapient dog as they join a Martian circus.
Anthony Boucher praised the novel as "the most enjoyable non-Heinlein s.f. for the young" in several years, describing "Morrison's" writing as "easy, lively, humorous and charming."[1]