Gibson meets the Chief Executive of Mars, Warren Hadfield, and Mayor Whittaker, who run the colony from the base at Port Lowell. On Mars, Gibson and the crew go their separate ways. He also reveals that he had an affair at university but that he and his girlfriend broke up and that she married another man, had a child and later died. After psychiatric treatment, he had become an author. Gibson tells him about his early life, revealing that he had to leave Cambridge University because of a nervous breakdown and never completed his studies. The youngest crew member, Jimmy Spencer, who is still in training to be an astronaut, is assigned the task of answering his questions about the technology of space flight, and they become friends.
After arriving at Space Station One, in the orbit of Earth, from which all interplanetary journeys start, he begins the three-month trip to Mars. Martin Gibson, a famous science fiction author, is travelling to Mars, as a guest of the crew of the spaceship Ares. The Sands of Mars was Clarke's first published novel. The story setting is that Mars has been surveyed but not fully explored on the ground. It is set principally on the planet Mars, which has been settled by humans and is used essentially as a research establishment.
The story was published in 1951, before humans had achieved space flight. While he was already popular as a short story writer and as a magazine contributor, The Sands of Mars was also a prelude to Clarke's becoming one of the world's foremost writers of science fiction novels. The Sands of Mars (also titled Sands of Mars) is a science fiction novel by English writer Arthur C.
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