New on Gutenberg 12/27/08

New or updated etexts of interest on Project Gutenberg:

Dead World (1961) by Jack Douglas

Out on the ice-buried planet, Commander Red Stone led his Free Companions to almost certain death. They died for a dangerous dream that had only one chance in a thousand trillion to come true. Is there a better reason for dying?

First published in Amazing Stories May 1961.

To Mars via The Moon: An Astronomical Story (1911) by Mark Wicks

“What a splendid view we then had over the country all around us!… Across the country, in line after line, were the canals which we had been so anxious to see, extending as far as the eye could reach!”