Project Gutenberg 2020-05-06 Public domain in the USA. 116 Hasse, Henry 1913 1977 Hasse, Henry Louis Bok, Hannes 1914 1964 Woodard, Wayne Francis Thief of Mars Produced from Planet Stories Winter 1941 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Thief of Mars" by Henry Hasse is a science fiction novel written during the early 20th century. The narrative follows Ron Jordan, an Earthman on a covert mission amidst a chaotic and lawless pirate base on the asteroid Ceres. The book explores themes of deception, survival, and the quest for justice as it unfolds in a universe filled with dangerous creatures and interplanetary criminals. In "Thief of Mars," Ron Jordan's primary objective is to clear his brother, Carl, of a false smuggling charge that led to a life sentence in a notorious prison. Posing as a down-and-out laborer among pirates, he searches for the ship that wronged his brother, ultimately leading him to confront the treacherous Martian captain Tarnuff. The story climaxes in a deadly duel of strategy and wits between Jordan and Tarnuff against the backdrop of a spaceship filled with the dangerous Silicytes, creatures that digest metal and threaten to destroy the spaceship. With urgency mounting as a Patrol ship approaches, Jordan risks everything to secure his brother’s freedom and face the dangers that lie ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 84.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Adventure stories Space ships -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 74339 2025-06-24T13:32:00.243686 text/html 50865 2024-10-18T03:13:44 text/html 248732 2025-06-24T13:32:02.233707 application/epub+zip 248715 2025-06-24T13:32:00.710710 application/epub+zip 93531 2025-06-24T13:32:00.418679 application/epub+zip 288298 2025-06-24T13:32:03.539699 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 280442 2025-06-24T13:32:02.006711 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 125506 2022-09-28T01:17:28.311953 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 66874 2023-09-26T12:01:22.688592 text/plain 47058 2024-10-18T03:13:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17036 2025-06-24T13:32:03.679685 application/rdf+xml 30776 2025-06-24T13:32:00.501678 image/jpeg 4812 2025-06-24T13:32:00.460679 image/jpeg 600222 2025-06-24T13:32:00.258704 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia