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Marte, base de ataque

· 1970

Marte, base de ataque
Clark Carrados—"Marte, base de ataque" (Mars, Attack Base) This Spanish-language science fiction serial by Clark Carrados depicts Earth's alarm when an unidentified spacecraft crashes after its pilot, Tony Zeiss, broadcasts a cryptic warning that Mars harbors an attack base threatening the planet. Zeiss dies in the explosion; Camp Vickary, the Martian colony with 180 inhabitants, falls silent. Zeiss later reappears alive but traumatized, unhelpful to investigators. The narrative intersects with Reynold Tloth, a Martian expedition veteran, who meets Peggy Styles—sister of colony member Mike Styles—at her cabin. Learning of an experimental electroencephalographic camera invented by Professor Curton that can project and photograph brain images, they pursue its use on Zeiss to recover his memories of Camp Vickary's fate. Curton demonstrates the device's functionality by projecting Peggy's memories of her brother.

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