Martians, Go Home, Fredric Brown
Martians, Go Home, Fredric Brown
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Martians, Go Home

Author: Fredric Brown

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 5 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 03/18/2014

Synopsis

Martians, Go Home, originally published in 1955, is a comic science fiction novel that tells the story of Luke Devereaux, a science fiction writer who witnesses an alien invasion of little green men. These Martians haven't come to Earth to harm anyone—just to annoy people. Unable to touch the physical world, or be touched by it, they take great pleasure in walking through walls, spying on the private lives of humans—and revealing their every secret. No one knows how to get rid of these obnoxious little aliens, except perhaps Luke. Unfortunately, Mr. Devereaux is going a little bananas, so it may be difficult for him to try—but not impossible.

About Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown (1906–1972) was the only writer to achieve equal prominence in the mystery and science fiction genres. His first foray into mystery, The Fabulous Clipjoint, won the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Brown was also the acknowledged master of the short short story; the famous collection Nightmares and Geezenstacks demonstrates his consummate mastery of a form limited to no more than five hundred words. His short story “Arena” was the basis of a famed Star Trek episode; “Martians, Go Home!” was adapted for a 1992 film; “The Last Martian” was adapted for Serling’s Twilight Zone and starred Steve McQueen at the start of his career. Brown’s work, more than forty years after his death, is increasingly prominent.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

Wow I didn't know what to expect except that this was heralded as one of the best humorous alien invasion novels of all time. Upon reading, it worked quite nicely as pure satire. It didn't even have a tongue in cheek vibe to it. Instead, overnight, we've got 60 million little green aliens from Mars......more

Goodreads review by Jim on March 03, 2024

Frederic Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He was also a very funny writer, one of a very few in the SFF field (another being Robert Sheckley). This book, "Martians, Go Home" (love the title!) is perhaps his most famous work. Certainly, the paperback cov......more

Goodreads review by Hákon on August 06, 2016

I think this book may be one of the best example of why one shouldn't judge a book by the film that was based on it. The film that was based on this novel stared Randy Quaid, and was in my view dreadful. The film makers lost pretty much all the humor from the novel when they made it into film. Grant......more

Goodreads review by P.E. on April 06, 2020

What if telepathic, ubiquitous little pricks were prying into each of your secrets and disclosed them to anybody for kicks? Here we go. Matching Soundtrack : Weidorje - Elohim's Voyage......more

Quotes

“Fredric Brown is at his best in this eerie science fiction classic of the invasion of the earth by one billion Martians in the year 1964.” Boston Herald

“One of the great humorous SF novels, Martians, Go Home is a hilarious and hysterically mean-spirited romp that turns the genre’s conventions on its ear.” John Marr, io9.com

“Fanciful doings lightly-like.” Kirkus Reviews

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