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Also known as Gullivar of Mars, as well as being reprinted in several editions with the protagonist s name misspelled (understandably, perhaps) as Gulliver, Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, emitted from the pen of Edwin Lester Arnold in 1905, is the first entry in the rather narrow genre of Mars adventures, which of course is a subcategory of the more reasonable planetary romance/planetary adventure/sword and planet genre.
Gullivar Jones, on leave from the US Navy, is morosely pacing about New York City when a peculiar man falls out of the sky before his feet, along with a carpet. Our hero naturally assumes this is merely a tall-building-related incident; the man himself is pronounced dead with a broken neck on first examination, and Gullivar takes the carpet home with him, being at a loss for what else to do with it. One technical mishap later, he inevitably finds himself forcibly rolled up in the carpet and hucked away to Mars to his own considera