Zarlah the Martian

When we were young, we read that Hugo Gernsback had invented science fiction his own self back in the late 1920s. But R. Norman Grisewood's Zarlah the Martian dates from 1909! What gives? Was Grisewood a man ahead of his time -- or was he a fan from the 1930s who somehow invented a time machine? Inquiring minds want to know. You know where to reach us.