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Title: Rebels of the Red Planet

Author: Charles Louis Fontenay

Release Date: March 4, 2007 [EBook #20739]

Language: English

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REBELS OF THE RED PLANET

by

CHARLES L. FONTENAY

_Charles L. Fontenay has also written_:

TWICE UPON A TIME (D-266)

Copyright (C), 1961, by Ace Books, Inc.
All Rights Reserved

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MARS FOR THE MARTIANS!

Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact;
everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant,
ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to
overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars.

The Phoenix had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times!
But this time the resurrected Dark had new plans, plans which
involved dangerous experiments in mutation and psionics.

And now the rebels realized they were in double jeopardy. Not only
from the government's desperate hatred of their movement, but also
from the growing possibility that the new breed of mutated monsters
would get out of hand and bring terrors never before known to man.

CHARLES L. FONTENAY writes: "I was born in Brazil of a father who
was by birth English and by parentage German and French, and of a
mother who was by birth American and by parentage American and
Scottish. This mess of internationalism caused me some trouble in
the army during World War II as the government couldn't decide
whether I was American, British, or Brazilian; and both as an
enlisted man and an officer I dealt in secret work which required
citizenship by birth. On three occasions I had to dig into the
lawbooks. Finally they gave up and admitted I was an American
citizen....

"I was raised on a West Tennessee farm and distinguishe