Mars Is My Destination : Armchair Fiction & Music : 9781612870571 : 1612870570 : 02 Oct 2011 : Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. "Mars is My Destination," written by Frank Belknap Long, is a tale of a planet in danger. There was trouble brewing on Mars-bad trouble. Two giant industrial empires fought for control there, and their struggle imperiled the whole Mars colony. Civil war-atomic civil war second-could break out any second, leaving Earth's only foothold in space a mass of radioactive rubble. One man was needed to take charge-one man who could act fast and decisively, brutally if he had to. Ralph Graham got the job. And then the people around him started to die.