The artist's conception of the canals on Mars, still a tenuous possibility when the book was published in 1956. Gallant is noncommittal about the existence of the canals. Astronomer Percival Lowell swore he could see them, back in1906, but Gallant said dryly that if you squint and strain long enough you can make yourself see just about anything.
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