<img class="alignleft" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 8px;" title="Welcome to Mars" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wtm.gif" alt="" width="217" height="312" />Ken Hollings' <em>Welcome to Mars</em> is Strange Attractor's first book to be converted to the Kindle e-book format.

It's available via <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067MDIWC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mirmen-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B0067MDIWC">Amazon US</a> at $6.99

or from <a href="http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=stranattra-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B0067MDIWC">Amazon UK</a> at £5.99

<em>A remarkable book... quite simply, essential reading.</em>
Fortean Times

<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>

<em>Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today.</em>
Adam Curtis

Seamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.