Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation Thu Jul 01 2021 at 2:41:48 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 considerable, understandable bafflement. Adventures unsurprisingly ensue.