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Removing examples that refer to stories that are not in the Martian Chronicles, and one incorrect example — "Way up in the air" and "Dark they were & golden eyed" are in Bradbury's other story collection, "S is for Space" and not in the Chronicles, and in The Long Years, Hathaway is not "forcibly taken back to earth"; he dies of a heart attack, and is buried on Mars, next to his real family, who died 20 years before the story.
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** In "Usher II," we have the members of [[CulturePolice Moral Climates]], a pro-censorship organization that has seemingly successfully lobbied for virtually all works of fiction to be banned on Earth. An ex-librarian and an ex-actor, both ruined by their actions, proceed to use robots to kill them in grisly ways referencing works they banned, culminating in the leader being personally dispatched by the librarian via [[BuriedAlive live burial]] in an homage to ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado''. Their fates are horrifying, but one can't help but cheer at the triumph of free speech.
** Teece of "Way in the Middle of the Air" is an unpleasant racist who tries to force any African-Americans he can to stay on Earth solely because he won't be able to lynch black people anymore. Even his friends find his actions reprehensible and even defend Teece's employee, Silly, from his attempts. Nobody feels particularly bad when he crashes his car on his way to kill the African-Americans who are leaving.
** Teece of "Way in the Middle of the Air" is an unpleasant racist who tries to force any African-Americans he can to stay on Earth solely because he won't be able to lynch black people anymore. Even his friends find his actions reprehensible and even defend Teece's employee, Silly, from his attempts. Nobody feels particularly bad when he crashes his car on his way to kill the African-Americans who are leaving.
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** In "Usher II," we have the members of [[CulturePolice Moral Climates]], a pro-censorship organization that has seemingly successfully lobbied for virtually all works of fiction to be banned on Earth. An ex-librarian and an ex-actor, both ruined by their actions, proceed to use robots to kill them in grisly ways referencing works they banned, culminating in the leader being personally dispatched by the librarian via [[BuriedAlive live burial]] in an homage to ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado''. Their fates are horrifying, but one can't help but cheer at the triumph of free speech.
** Teece of "Way in the Middle of the Air" is an unpleasant racist who tries to force any African-Americans he can to stay on Earth solely because he won't be able to lynch black people anymore. Even his friends find his actions reprehensible and even defend Teece's employee, Silly, from his attempts. Nobody feels particularly bad when he crashes his car on his way to kill the African-Americans who are leaving.
** Teece of "Way in the Middle of the Air" is an unpleasant racist who tries to force any African-Americans he can to stay on Earth solely because he won't be able to lynch black people anymore. Even his friends find his actions reprehensible and even defend Teece's employee, Silly, from his attempts. Nobody feels particularly bad when he crashes his car on his way to kill the African-Americans who are leaving.
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* DeepSouth: "Way in the Middle of the Air" takes place in an unnamed small town in this region, and this version of Dixieland is still an extremely racist and violent place where lynchings still rage on in 2003.
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* FisherKingdom: In "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed", human colonists on Mars [[spoiler:are slowly converted into Martians]]. External changes are subtle (see the title), but the personalities are completely rewritten, and [[spoiler:they completely forget their human pasts]].
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** "Way in the Middle of the Air" focuses on Samuel Teece, a white Southerner whose racist views of the local "niggers" color the description of the way they pooled their resources and bought rockets in secret to escape the racist American south. In describing the region, Teece notes that the poll tax is gone and "More and more states passin' anti-lynchin' bills." The [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture supposed date]] is 2003.[[note]]The poll tax was outlawed in 1964 and while no anti-lynching bills were passed, they would have become obsolete once lynching became so disreputable that only the lowest criminals were willing to participate in it, and anyone who did prosecuted for murder rather than praised.[[/note]]
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* LotusEaterMachine: "Mars Is Heaven!" starts out as a sort of OntologicalMystery in the beginning. A crew from Earth land on Mars, which looks like Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. When their [[NostalgiaHeaven long lost dead relatives start appearing]], the crewmembers are overcome with the excitement of seeing old faces again. It has a DownerEnding: [[spoiler: the residents of the town are shape-shifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] who put up the facade to throw the spacemen off guard. It works: [[SlainInTheirSleep that night, just as the Captain realizes this, his "brother" kills him]]. The same thing happens all over town. The next day, they have a funeral for the spacemen... and then take on their true forms and gleefully tear the ship apart.]]
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* LotusEaterMachine: "Mars Is Heaven!" speech.
** "The Third Expedition" starts out as a sort of OntologicalMystery in the beginning. A crew from Earth land on Mars, which looks like Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. When their [[NostalgiaHeaven long lost dead relatives start appearing]], the crewmembers are overcome with the excitement of seeing old faces again. It has a DownerEnding: [[spoiler: the residents of the town are shape-shifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] who put up the facade to throw the spacemen off guard. It works: [[SlainInTheirSleep that night, just as the Captain realizes this, his "brother" kills him]]. The same thing happens all over town. The next day, they have a funeral for the spacemen... and then take on their true forms and gleefully tear the ship apart.]]
** "The Third Expedition" starts out as a sort of OntologicalMystery in the beginning. A crew from Earth land on Mars, which looks like Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. When their [[NostalgiaHeaven long lost dead relatives start appearing]], the crewmembers are overcome with the excitement of seeing old faces again. It has a DownerEnding: [[spoiler: the residents of the town are shape-shifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] who put up the facade to throw the spacemen off guard. It works: [[SlainInTheirSleep that night, just as the Captain realizes this, his "brother" kills him]]. The same thing happens all over town. The next day, they have a funeral for the spacemen... and then take on their true forms and gleefully tear the ship apart.]]
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** "The Long Years": [[spoiler:Hathaway]] is forcibly taken back to Earth, leaving his "family" behind to continue their empty routine.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: "Way in the Middle of the Air", set in the segregated South, is about all the blacks in the area pooling their resources to make/buy a rocket to get to Mars. They're never mentioned again through the entire rest of the book. Later, in ''The Illustrated Man'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:they go back to help the survivors of the nuclear war]].
