Well, when those people landed on Mars they saw the US town full of their deceased loved ones and decided that it was Paradise, ran out of the vehicle and mixed with the crowd. At night Martians killed them all one-by --one and reversed to their original form.
- That's gross. I don't remember any stories in our science fiction where alien civilizations would be hateful.
-They hated people because they learned their thoughts and those thoughts were full of selfishness and greed. The fourth expedition found Mars devastated by disease and most of the population dead. It was chickenpox.
- What?
- Chickenpox. Humans brought the virus with them and Martians were wiped out.
- I heard of such things. I read about poisoned blankets delivered to Indians long ago. That story of yours, it seems like some kind of a Columbus landing in America, but with a twist as if the Indians could predict it and take precautions. In vain, though. BTW, don't we have a song here about us going to Mars and grow apples there?
- Yes, and that's exactly what Bradbury describes in one of the stories there. But there's also something else. People, who came to live on Mars, they became Martians.
- What do you mean, they transformed?
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