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Rocket Summer
In January 1999 , a rocket is launched from Ohio.It creates so much warmth that all the snow melts , for a moment it is summer. -
Ylla
A Martian woman named Ylla has dreams of a rocket landing on Mars,containing an Earth Men she fells in love with.Her husband is worried,and when the rocket lands he shoots the men. -
The Summer Night
Some Martians randomly start playing popular American songs and acting like Americans.Evidently they are subconsciously picking up that a ship full of colonisers is on its way -
The Earth Men
The next morning,Earth Men land.They go from house to house,saying that they are from Earth,but everyone turns them away.Finally they are reffered to Mr.Iii.This one brings them to a room where they can spend the night.Slowly they realize they heve been put in an insane asylum.Mr Xxx is a psychologist who thinks they make strong hallucinations.He finally shoots them all and commits suicide. -
The Taxpayer
A man runs to the launchpad,demanding as a taxpayer to be let into the third rocket to Mars.He is arrested. -
The Third Expedition
When the rocket lands on Mars,the crew of 16 members finds itself in an ideal small American town.Upon explorations,members of the crew begin to meet different long-lost members of their families.The captain Black finds himself in the home of his family.When falling asleep he realises that all this is probably a Martian trap.He tries to run away but is stopped by his fake brother and is killed.The next morning a funeral is organized. -
And The Moon Be Still as Bright
Earth Men on the Fourth Expedition finds that most of the Martians have died from chickenpox.A member of this expedition Spender thinks that people should not be there because he thinks humans are destroying Mars whith their human habits,so he kils members of the crew and they decide to kill him back. -
The Settlers
In August 2001,drawn by the promise of work,settlers begin to arrive.At first many suffer from loneliness,as their numbers are few but they try to adapt themselves. -
The Green Morning
A settler has trouble breathing on the red planet,so he made it his personal mission to plant oxygen-producing trees without being sure if it will grow pro-ply.One morning,he turns around and sees that landscape is know covered with tall and green trees. -
The Locusts
Many rockets have been set to Mars.A dozen of towns have been built and colonized.One night,well driving to a party Toma's Gomez meets a Martian,they discuss together.They also realise that they look alike.They agree to disagree and part ways. -
The Shore
By October 2002,a multitude of settlers is hitting Mars.The first was rough and built to build homes where there was nothing,but the second wave comes from the cities.Still,all the settlers come from America. -
The Fire Ballons
Episcopal priests come to Mars to try to convert the Martians.These one says they have know need of religion in they world,the priests are sorry for this. -
The Interim
The cities built by the colonists on Mars was made to resemble at typical American towns. -
The Musicians
The settler's children have found an odd way of amusing themselves:they hike out to ruined Martian towns filled with dead bodies,and they take bones from the skeletons and make music from them. -
The Wilderness
Two women prepare to depart on a rocket to Mars.Before leaving they have thoughts about their memories on Earth that they will probably never see again. -
Way in the Middle of the Air
On Earth,black African-American have prepared a trip to Mars but their white racist masters are preventing them to go.They finally find a solution to escape -
The Naming of Names
The years of 2004 and 2005 Earth Men rename places on Mars -
Usher II
A rich man angry about censorship builds a haunted house that he uses to kill censors to a way to provoke government on Mars. -
The Old Ones
Old people are sent to Mars to have a larger density of population containing all types of ages. -
The Martian
A Martian shape shifts into a long-dead son of an older couple.When they head into town,he shape shifts into the loved ones gone with everyone he sees.He is finally unmasked and becomes a Martian again under the eyes of the people every disappointed and shocked. -
The Luggage Store
A luggage-store owner talks about how a war on Earth might make people go back. -
The Off Season
A man from the Fourth Expedition opens a hot-dog stands and gets into a fight with some Martians who just want to talk to him.They end up giving him lands on Mars,the man is surprised but enthousiastic,unfortunately the war on Earth means that he's not going to profit. -
The Watchers
The colonists witness a nuclear war on Earth from Mars.They immediately return out of concern for their families and friends,like the luggage owner's had inferred. -
The Silent Towns
After everyone else has left,the last man on Mars meets the last woman.He really wanted to marry a woman even the last one on Mars.When seeing her he finds her very ugly even tough she had a very soft voice and escapes decided to live alone for the rest of his life. -
The Long Years
A man thinking he is the last man on Mars builds a robot family after his real family dies. -
There Will Come Soft Rains
On Earth,a fully automated house goes through its last day before breaking down by a nuclear bomb. -
The Million-Year Picnic
A family saves a rocket that that the government would have used in the nuclear war.When landing on Mars they decide to destroy the rocket so they cannot return to Earth.During a boat trip he introduces them to Martians which is actually their own reflection in a canal.