A mock-epic adventure bursts to life when a heroic narrator is cast out of his honeymoon, stranded over the Pacific in an atomic Zeppelin, and dragged beneath the sea by a giant clam. Rescued and hidden away by the dazzlingly capable Lowell Hawthorne, he is promised a tale stranger than any romance or war story he has ever known. What follows is a gleeful parody of planetary fiction, full of impossible science, swaggering masculinity, and affectionate satire. In Hawthorne's account, a brutal attack in Central Park ends with awakening on Mars, where towering green natives speak in comic equivalents and absurd political turns of phrase. There, amid economic collapse, social unrest, and the perils of transmigration, he joins the Martians for the Great Games, a savage arena spectacle of beasts, rivals, and prize money. When he rescues a beautiful woman from a predator, her likeness to his lost love Isis turns the tale toward reincarnation, romance, and danger in equal measure. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.