- Yes, and that is really strange, Nuclear war would mean total annihilation, why would you return back to perish?But they all returned to die.
- The war with whom? With us?
- I guess that's the idea but it is just shown as a Global War. They all returned and nothing could stop it. Mars rejected them.
- No, that's not that simple. You said Mars transformed them. They took something from it. Original Martians most likely could leave Mars for good but they didn't . People from Mars still considered Earth to be their place. They could not abandon it. So they went back. You know, in the Big War here there were a lot of volunteers. A lot. People who were aged, who would have never been drafted- they still insisted on going to war because they felt a call. That call- that is what people from Mars felt when they saw Earth burning. But to hear that call they had to embed something Martian as you said.
- Right, I think you figured it out. At the end a family comes back to Mars from Earth in their own rocket to get away from war and they see the Martians in the water. They had become ones.
- Nice book. And all of that in Ukrainian?
- You know, I think Ukrainian is more appropriate here because it is a language of a song. The book is like a song, really. Our folks here, those drunken guys at the bar and all those railway folks around- they are all Ukrainians, right. Can you imagine them being Martians?
We looked around as if we were there for the first time. Smoke filled the hall and it seemed even darker from the chandelier up there. We did not see the people, only shadows in the fog and heard the train signals as if those were the rockets called to launch. Someone was playing an accordion on the platform and the words of the song seemed to float around us, so one --by-one we started to murmur it in Ukrainian:
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