F. H. Sidney — catalogued as Frederic H. Sidney, born 1875, death year unrecorded — was an American short-story writer active in the late 1910s. He is known for a single work, A Fishing Trip on the Planet Mars, a short science fiction tale published in the San Francisco magazine Overland Monthly in May 1919. It follows an unsuccessful Earth angler who is magnetically pulled to Mars, where he meets a long-lost fellow Earthman turned Martian citizen and a Martian inventor, tours a utopian Mars of wireless power, adopted English, equal suffrage, and no predators, and goes radio-rifle fishing before waking to find it was a dream. The story sits in the early pulp and proto-planetary-romance tradition, in the vein of the Percival Lowell–influenced canals-of-Mars fiction common to the period. No other published works, biographical sketch, or authority-file cross-references turn up beyond this single credited story and the bare 1875 birth year; he appears to be a minor and largely undocumented author known almost solely for this one Mars story, which is now in the public domain.
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