Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicles
or
'The Conquest of the Red Race'
JUNE 2001:And the Moon Be Still As Bright
It was so cold when they first came out of the rocket...
Hathaway gazed out at the distant cities twinkling in the starlight...
"What a woman! What a woman!" Biggs emptied his bottle in his wide mouth...
All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names...
.. made their way to the outer rim of the dreaming dead city in the light of the racing twin moons...
Spender did not return in the following week...
..the second and third bullets took the men on the right and the centre of the table...
.. philosophy at least ten thousand years old he found in one of the villas of a Martian valley town...
..Because I've seen what these Martians had was just as good as anything we'll ever hope to have...
The captain nodded. "Tell me about your civilization here"...
"I have someting to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer"...
Spender remained where he was, firing only on occasion...
There was a singing of heat in the land, off the rocks and off the blue sky...
