Malacandra

8. What famous English novelist and essayist called Mars "Malacandra"?

Take the University of Maryland's 1997 "Mars in Science Fiction Quiz" Paul 2009

8. What famous English novelist and essayist called Mars "Malacandra"?

Archive 2009-07-01 Paul 2009

When philologist Elwin Ransom seeks room and board on a hiking trip, he ends up shanghaied and brought to the strange world of Malacandra ...

Nov. 19th, 2008 - Issue 0.012 z0mbieastronaut 2008

“Ransom overhears a conversation about his intended fate on Malacandra, where he will first encounter the aliens known as sorns.”

Archive 2008-11-01 Paul 2008

“Ransom spends the night alone in the forest of Malacandra, before encountering another of the alien species, known as a hross.”

Archive 2008-11-01 Paul 2008

Myself, I am waiting for the cross-over novel where the tripod War Machines of Mars attempt to conquer either the radium-pistol armed Barsoomians, or the Eldil-protected Sorn of Malacandra.

SF Tidbits for 10/26/06 2006

The silent, purple half-light of the woods spread all around him as it had spread on the first day he spent in Malacandra, but everything else was changed.

Archive 2007-03-01 Arevanye 2007

The silent, purple half-light of the woods spread all around him as it had spread on the first day he spent in Malacandra, but everything else was changed.

Fear and Courage Arevanye 2007

Every light cruiser in this area seemed to be there—Constitution and Constellation, Resolute and Bannockburn, Sadat and Malacandra and Bonhomme Richard.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

Every light cruiser in this area seemed to be there—Constitution and Constellation, Resolute and Bannockburn, Sadat and Malacandra and Bonhomme Richard.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983