Ray Bradbury - August 2005: The Old Ones
The Martian Chronicles
And what more natural than that, at last, the old people come to Mars, following in the trail left by the loud frontiersmen, the aromatic sophisticates, and the professional travelers and romantic lecturers in search of new grist.
And so the dry and crackling people, the people who spent their time listening to their hearts and feeling their pulses and spooning syrups into their wry mouths, these people who once had taken chair cars to California in November and third-class steamers to Italy in April, the dried-apricot people, the mummy people, came at last to Mars. . . .
Previous Martian Stories:
- January 1999: Rocket Summer
- February 1999: Ylla
- August 1999: The Summer Night
- August 1999: The Earth Men
- March 2000: The Taxpayer
- April 2000: The Third Expedition
- June 2001: And The Moon Be Still As Bright
- August 2001: The Settlers
- December 2001: The Green Morning
- February 2002: The Locusts
- August 2002: Night Meeting
- October 2002: The Shore
- February 2003: Interim
- April 2003: The Musicians
- June 2003: Way in The Middle of The Air
- 2004-05: The Naming of Names
- April 2005: Usher II
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