# Stowaway to Mars

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- Book: [Stowaway to Mars](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wyndham/stowaway-to-mars) ([Stowaway to Mars.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wyndham/stowaway-to-mars.md))
- Authors: [John Wyndham](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wyndham)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-702-6
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2016-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For British pilot Dale Curtance, the Keuntz Prize - to be awarded to the first person to take a spaceship to another planet and back - is the ultimate challenge. Not only has he to build a ship to survive the journey, assemble a top-notch crew and choose a destination, he's also got to beat the Russians and Americans. Soon the GLORIA MUNDI blasts off from Salisbury Plain, bound for Mars. There's only one problem - a stowaway called Joan. Not only does her presence wreck calculations and threaten the mission, but her tale suggests that Mars may be a more dangerous destination than they ever expected.