Ulla: Martian Song Book 1

by Martin L. Shoemaker

H.G. Wells was wrong. But then, so was everyone else...Once Eugene Hardy was a trailblazer, with a promising future studying law. But the world outside his small town was cold and unforgiving. By 1907 he has returned home, teaching music at local schools and at his church. His life is quiet now, settled.Then he encounters the circus train; and he meets the Martian...The tragedy of London sweeps the world, threatening Martian refugees who never hurt anyone, but who cannot speak for themselves. Suddenly Eugene must stand for individual justice over collective guilt. Only this pacifist musician can protect the last free Martians.From Martin L. Shoemaker, bestselling author of The Last Dance and Today I Am Carey!Martin is known for his hard science fiction, including The Last Dance (#1 science fiction book on Amazon for October 2019) and The Last Campaign. In Martian Song Book 1, Martin tells a very different Mars story, but with all the scientific rigor readers have come to expect. In this book, everything in The War of the Worlds happened as H.G. Wells described—but Wells didn't understand the story behind the story. Now you can learn the tragic truth.

126 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2022

About the author

Martin L. Shoemaker has dual careers as a software programmer and as an acclaimed, award-winning short story writer. He’s also the author of two novels, The Last Dance and The Last Campaign, installments in the Near Earth Mysteries science fiction series.

Reviews

[Cat Girczyc · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly recommend this book. I received it as part of a kickstarter and it was worth it. It's charming and has a wonderful flow to it. Characters are well realized and interesting. The plot was concocted in response to H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" and so it is a historical piece but it's also a good science fictional story, positing Martians landing in America and asking what would the Martians think they'd done?