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Wicks, Mark

(?   -?   ) UK author whose Scientific Romance To Mars Via the Moon: An Astronomical Story (1911) recounts the construction of a Spaceship capable of taking its bereaved solitary builder first to the Moon and then to Mars, which is described in accordance with the theories of Percival Lowell; here he finds a Utopia, and the Reincarnation of his dead son. He remains on Mars. [JC/PN]

Mark Wicks

born

works

• To Mars Via the Moon: An Astronomical Story (London: Seeley and Company, 1911) [illus/hb/Mark Wicks]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Gutenberg
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 11:15 am on 12 March 2026.
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