Charles Dickens' Martian Notes

First Ether

by Simon Bucher-Jones

Charles Dickens' account of his trip to Mars in 1842. Including never before published material declassified by the Circumlocution Office. Note this edition is a facsimile of the 1914 edition and has small print, a popular softback edition will be issued shortly.

An Alt History, a Planetary Romance, a Travelogue.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published September 7, 2015

About the author

Simon Bucher-Jones is a British author, poet, artist, and amateur actor, best known for his Doctor Who novels for Virgin and the BBC and as a contributor to the Faction Paradox spin-off series.

He is known for a hard SF approach. He has also written Cthulhu Mythos short stories. He also reviewed books for the Fortean Times, and for small press papers. He maintains a blog at http://www.simonbjones.blogspot.com where he is, among other projects, gradually turning all the Star Wars films into Shakespearean plays. He also markets a range of Cthulhu Mythos artwork t-shirts and mugs. He is also a major contributor of 'hidden cities' to the 'blind atlas' meme. His poetry has appeared in the Journal of the British Fantasy Society.