Stories that were funny at one angle but you turn your head two inches to the side and you see something very terrifying beneath. What I didn't expect was a series of short stories that were science fiction, but more.

Maybe it was because I finally read all of the 'Tom Corbet: Space Cadet' books last year (a goal since I was a pre-teen and ran across the first volume of the 1950's sci-fi where people hunted dinosaurs on Venus and people hadn't considered the idea of a computer having a screen), but I expected more of the same: big brassy rockets, maybe a bit of John Carter of Mars action, and other 'classic sci-fi' conceptions. I'd often heard they were a masterpiece of science fiction, and just hadn't put them on my list.

Anna (Sheila Moore) was also in RBT’s The Day It Rained Forever.For some time I've had on my list 'The Martian Chronicles' by Ray Bradbury.

John Vernon (LaFarge) was just seen on TFTC in Seance.

Although it is great that the season had only 8 episodes. Finally he is overwhelmed by the crowds and vanishes completely. He turns into several different people, and is finally seen in the act of changing. There are so many people around with so many memories of dead friends that he can’t maintain his form as Tom. LaFarge finds the girl and convinces her to turn back into Tom. All over the Martian town, people are seeing their dead relatives. When LaFarge looks for him, he sees a girl reuniting with her parents - clearly Tom has taken a new form.

The three of them go to an outdoor bazaar that night. He has heard that the few remaining indigenous Martians can read minds and imitate relatives, which is why we killed the Indians. Anna is treating Tom as her real son, but LaFarge is suspicious. The next morning, LaFarge awakes to hear his wife and dead son having breakfast. He beelines for his mother’s bedroom quicker than Buster Bluth. Let me go.” LaFarge opens the door and it is his dead son Tom. Although I think he is just as likely to hear her on Mars as on Earth no matter what your belief system.Ī strange ball of light appears the next night and a disembodied voices says, “Let me go. What would be the use?” Hers sounds like a crazy comment, but she misses driving to his grave on Sunday and talking to him. I suspect they would never be in that configuration in the sky, but why quibble.ĭown on the Martian surface, LaFarge and his wife Anna are having a restless night, both dreaming about their dead son.Īnna says, “We should have brought him with us.” Her husband quite reasonably says, “Anna, he’s been dead 5 years. Bradbury might give Mars earth-like gravity, blue skies, and breathable air, but he did at least keep the 2nd moon.

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