Escape from Mars

To remain on Mars meant death from agonizing space-sickness, but Earth-surgery lay days of flight away. And there was only a surface rocket in which to escape—with a traitorous Ganymedean for its pilot.

About Wilson “Bob” Tucker

Wilson “Bob” Tucker was a well known sf writer who coined the term Space Opera and his frequent use of friends' names for minor characters in his work led to the term tuckerization to describe the phenomenon.