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“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 Air”
“2004-2005: The Naming of Names”
“April 2005: Usher II”
“August 2005: The Old Ones”
“September 2005: The Martian”
“November 2005: The Luggage Store”
“November 2005: The Off Season”
“November 2005: The Watchers”
“December 2005: The Silent Towns”
“April 2026: The Long Years”
“August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”
“October 2026: The Million-Year Picnic”
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Captain John Black and the Third Expedition land in a grassy field on Mars, near a small town that is strikingly familiar to their hometowns in Ohio. Captain Black is suspicious of the town, and the archaeologist, Hinkston, cannot calm his own suspicions nor can he explain the familiarity of the town. Wary, Captain Black commands his crew to stay with the rocket, while he, Hinkston, and Lustig, the navigator, explore the town.
They first meet a woman who claims they are in Green Bluff, Illinois and that the year is 1926, leading them to despair that they have time travelled, but Black isn’t convinced. Lustig spots his grandmother and grandfather and rushes to them gladly. They claim to have been living on Mars since their deaths thirty years ago, and Lustig’s grandmother chides Black for asking questions. Black then watches with consternation as his crew abandons their positions on the rocket and rush into town to reconnect with their lost loved ones. A celebration begins in town.
Black is caught off-guard as his deceased brother Ed approaches but is swept along with the promise of seeing his parents again. Black spends a happy night at home with his family, but he cannot get to sleep at night as he thinks of the various theories proposed during the day.
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