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The World's Last Wonder Australia's First Space Opera. The inventor takes his friend and others on a journey to Mars in competition with someone who had stole his patent for his space car. The antagonist's car is called The Annexator and their plan is to claim Mars for themselves, and have even kidnapped the girlfriend of one of the passengers on the protagonist's ship. A tense nailbiting situation mid story as both ships link up and attempt exchanging documents in a vacuum, even though neither car had been designed with an air lock. Landing on Mars, the protagonists meet two intelligent species and detail the attempts to communicate. Unfortunately, the antagonists' prior landing had eventually caused the inhabitants to realise humanity is dangerous and force the protagonists off planet and determine Earth is now under quarantine. This summary does not do the huge amount of science and inventions in this story justice. A critical scholarly digital edition is available for download.