![]() Eventually a handful of survivors return and civilisation on Mars will restart.Īlthough the collection was published in 1950 (some stories were previously published before that), it’s not terribly dated as other science fiction authors can be. ![]() They follow the relationship between Earth and Mars, from the first expeditions (foiled by the ungrateful Martian natives), frontier towns and missionaries, to colonisation after the Martians are decimated by a virus, to the abandonment of Mars when everyone goes back to an Earth on the brink of nuclear war. ![]() The stories are presented in chronological order from 1999 to 2026. The contents can vary the edition I read this time is by Harper, 2008. Also known as The Silver Locusts, this is a fabulous short story collection with a similar tone to The Illustrated Man. ![]()
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