Abbott and Costello Go to Mars story
Two men, Lester and Orville, accidentally find themselves aboard a rocketship bound for Mars, or so they think.
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| female-only society | major | Lester and Orville landed on Venus and find it inhabited by a race of beautiful women. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | Lester and Orville find themselves on what they think is a rocketship bound for Mars. They later fly to Venus and back. |
| Martian extraterrestrial | major | Lester and Orville encounter beings they assume to be Martians, although they turned out to be people from New Orleans at Mardi Gras. |
| speculative spaceship | major | Lester and Orville find themselves on what they think is a rocketship bound for Mars. |
| Venusian extraterrestrial | major | Lester and Orville landed on Venus and find it inhabited by a race of beautiful women. |
| what if I found myself with a superabundance of potential lovers and no competition | major | Lester and Orville landed on Venus and find it inhabited by a race of beautiful women. |
| anti-aging technology | minor | The Venusian women had discovered a way to maintain their youthful appearances indefinitely. |
| facing organized pursuit | minor | Two escaped prisoners try to steal rocketship in order to escape police pursuit. |
| female independence | minor | Venusian women had banished men from their society long ago. |
| flirtation | minor | Orville with the Venusian women. |