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* DeadToBeginWith: Played with in "Mars is Heaven!" The crewmen assume they're in the afterlife when they meet their deceased relatives on Mars, but it's just a trick to lure them into a false sense of security.
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* DeadToBeginWith: Played with in "Mars is Heaven!" "The Third Expedition" The crewmen assume they're in the afterlife when they meet their deceased relatives on Mars, but it's just a trick to lure them into a false sense of security.
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** "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something is amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] kill them all.
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** "Mars Is Heaven!": The Third Expedition": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something is amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] kill them all.
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* MasterOfIllusion: In "Mars Is Heaven!", an expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocket ship so they can be easily murdered.
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* MasterOfIllusion: In "Mars Is Heaven!", "The Third Expedition", an expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocket ship so they can be easily murdered.
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* NostalgiaHeaven: "Mars Is Heaven!": Some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. [[spoiler:[[LotusEaterMachine It's a trap]].]]
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* NostalgiaHeaven: "Mars Is Heaven!": "The Third Expedition": Some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. [[spoiler:[[LotusEaterMachine It's a trap]].]]
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* SoleSurvivor: In the ''Radio/DimensionX''/''Radio/XMinusOne'' radio adaptations of "Mars Is Heaven!", Dr. Horst was the only member of his family to survive UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. When he was a child, all of his relatives were gassed in Dachau.
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* SoleSurvivor: In the ''Radio/DimensionX''/''Radio/XMinusOne'' radio adaptations of "Mars Is Heaven!", "The Third Expedition", Dr. Horst was the only member of his family to survive UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. When he was a child, all of his relatives were gassed in Dachau.
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* TelepathicSpacemen: Creator/RayBradbury's "Mars Is Heaven!": The [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] Martians create a LotusEaterMachine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until [[SlainInTheirSleep they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily]].
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* TelepathicSpacemen: Creator/RayBradbury's "Mars Is Heaven!": "The Third Expedition": The [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] Martians create a LotusEaterMachine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until [[SlainInTheirSleep they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily]].
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In "Mars Is Heaven!", the Martians are a race of shapeshifters who assumed the forms of the deceased relatives of the crew of the XR-53 in order to make them think that [[TitleDrop Mars is Heaven]] and lull them into a false sense of security.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In "Mars Is Heaven!", "The Third Expedition", the Martians are a race of shapeshifters who assumed the forms of the deceased relatives of the crew of the XR-53 in order to make them think that [[TitleDrop Mars is Heaven]] and lull them into a false sense of security.
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** 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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** Teece of “Way "Way in the Middle of the Air” Air" is an unpleasant racist who tries to force any African-Americans he can to stay on Earth solely because he won’t won't be able to lynch black people anymore. Even his friends find his actions reprehensible and even defend Teece’s 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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* ContinuityNod: The government-approved [[BookBurning book burnings]] mentioned in "Usher II" are a call back to Literature/Fahrenheit451.
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* ContinuityNod: The government-approved [[BookBurning book burnings]] mentioned in "Usher II" are a call back call-back to Literature/Fahrenheit451.''Literature/Fahrenheit451''.
* CosyCatastrophe: "The Silent Towns" features a man who, after a Martian colony is abandoned, is one of the last humans on Mars. He enjoys it for a while.
* CosyCatastrophe: "The Silent Towns" features a man who, after a Martian colony is abandoned, is one of the last humans on Mars. He enjoys it for a while.
* CulturePolice: In "Usher II", all works of fiction on Earth have been destroyed during the Great Burning. When the Moral Climate Monitors threaten to spread their censorship to Mars, a literary aficionado plans an elaborate revenge.
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** "The Earth Men": A crew of astronauts arrive on Mars, only to find that the Martians don't even care that they're from Earth--because [[spoiler:they assume that they're insane, and they think their spaceship is just a psychic hallucination]]. They end up [[spoiler:sent to an insane asylum]], and they're ultimately [[spoiler:shot to death by a Martian doctor trying to put them out of their misery]].
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** "The Earth Men": A crew of astronauts arrive on Mars, only to find that the Martians don't even care that they're from Earth--because Earth -- because [[spoiler:they assume that they're insane, and they think their spaceship is just a psychic hallucination]]. They end up [[spoiler:sent to an insane asylum]], and they're ultimately [[spoiler:shot to death by a Martian doctor trying to put them out of their misery]].
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Cherokee, one of the astronauts from the fourth expedition to Mars is a Native American who is rather vocal about his anger at America's historical mistreatment of his ancestors, yet [[spoiler: he's absolutely horrified when the similar sentiment motivates Spender to go on a killing spree against human colonists and chooses to be killed by his instead of joining him.]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Cherokee, one of the astronauts from the fourth expedition to Mars Mars, is a Native American who is rather vocal about his anger at America's historical mistreatment of his ancestors, yet [[spoiler: he's [[spoiler:he's absolutely horrified when the similar sentiment motivates Spender to go on a killing spree against human colonists and chooses to be killed by his instead of joining him.]]him]].
* FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither: An early portion has a Martian parent talking to a child, assuring it that there can't be any life on Earth, because of the excessive amounts of oxygen.
* 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]].
* FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither: An early portion has a Martian parent talking to a child, assuring it that there can't be any life on Earth, because of the excessive amounts of oxygen.
* 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]].
* FutureSocietyPresentValues:
** "The Wilderness" revolves around women sitting around being terrified about relocating (in this case, moving to Mars) just to get married (yet speaking as if they ''have to'' go), talking about being "old maids" if they don't go, and complaining about how "the men" make all their decisions for them... in 2003.
** "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]]
** "The Wilderness" revolves around women sitting around being terrified about relocating (in this case, moving to Mars) just to get married (yet speaking as if they ''have to'' go), talking about being "old maids" if they don't go, and complaining about how "the men" make all their decisions for them... in 2003.
** "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]]
* InfectiousInsanity: In "The Earth Men", as the Martians are telepathic, insanity is highly contagious among them. As a result, when they think someone is crazy (because they're claiming to be from another planet, for instance), the automatic reaction is to shoot them immediately -- and possibly then shoot themself, just to be on the safe side.
* TheLastManHeardAKnock: In "The Silent Towns", a man thinks he's the last human on Mars, but discovers -- much to his displeasure -- that he isn't.
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* LotusEaterMachine: "Mars Is Heaven!": This story 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!": This story 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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* {{Martians}}: The Earthmen initially find Mars to be populated by golden-eyed, dark-skinned HumanAliens; relations--and conflicts--between Earthmen and Martians are a major theme of many of the stories in the collection.
* MasterOfIllusion: "Mars Is Heaven!": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
* MasterOfIllusion: "Mars Is Heaven!": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
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* {{Martians}}: The Earthmen initially find Mars to be populated by golden-eyed, dark-skinned HumanAliens; relations--and conflicts--between RubberForeheadAliens; relations -- and conflicts -- between Earthmen and Martians are a major theme of many of the stories in the collection.
* MasterOfIllusion: In "Mars IsHeaven!": An Heaven!", an expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship rocket ship so they can be easily murdered.murdered.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: This is pretty much what did in the Martians. While they were perfectly fine being telepathic by themselves, the sheer novelty of thoughts emanating from the first handfuls of human explorers were enough to drive them completely insane, resulting in the rapid downfall of their civilization and the destruction of the entire species.
* MistakenForInsane: This is what causes the demise of the Second Expedition to Mars in "The Earth Men", as the humans get euthanized by a Martian doctor due to their 'delusion' of coming from another planet. Unfortunately, insane Martians can manifest their delusions in physical form, so even their rocket ship doesn't convince him. When the rocket ship remains after the humans are killed, the alarmed Martian is convinced that he's been infected by their insanity and shoots himself as well.
* MasterOfIllusion: In "Mars Is
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: This is pretty much what did in the Martians. While they were perfectly fine being telepathic by themselves, the sheer novelty of thoughts emanating from the first handfuls of human explorers were enough to drive them completely insane, resulting in the rapid downfall of their civilization and the destruction of the entire species.
* MistakenForInsane: This is what causes the demise of the Second Expedition to Mars in "The Earth Men", as the humans get euthanized by a Martian doctor due to their 'delusion' of coming from another planet. Unfortunately, insane Martians can manifest their delusions in physical form, so even their rocket ship doesn't convince him. When the rocket ship remains after the humans are killed, the alarmed Martian is convinced that he's been infected by their insanity and shoots himself as well.
* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: In "The Fire Balloons", two ministers try to ''make'' a Space Jesus representation to some aliens, but it turns out that they've had their Jesus Analogue and are well aware of The Faith.
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* OnlySaneMan: Subverted in "The Earth Men." While the Martians seem insane in how they ignore the significance of the astronauts being explorers from a different world, it's revealed [[spoiler:they think the astronauts are just insane Martians projecting illusions with telepathy.]]
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: In "The Long Years", Hathaway, a respected former astronaut, [[spoiler:finds himself the last living man in his town. Being an ingenious fellow and a dab hand with electronics, he rigs the entire city to look like it's still alive and vibrant from his slightly secluded home. He also creates robot duplicates of his wife and daughters, with whom he interacts just as if they were the originals]].
* OnceGreenMars: There was a civilization living on Mars [[FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither who didn't think Earthlings existed]] until they started landing on the planet, which the Martians attempt to resist as much as possible. Eventually, the Martians die off from a mild Earth disease and humans are all that remain on Mars.
* OnlySaneMan: Subverted in "The EarthMen." Men". While the Martians seem insane in how they ignore the significance of the astronauts being explorers from a different world, it's revealed that [[spoiler:they think the astronauts are just insane Martians projecting illusions with telepathy.]]telepathy]].
* OnceGreenMars: There was a civilization living on Mars [[FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither who didn't think Earthlings existed]] until they started landing on the planet, which the Martians attempt to resist as much as possible. Eventually, the Martians die off from a mild Earth disease and humans are all that remain on Mars.
* OnlySaneMan: Subverted in "The Earth
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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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** "The Long Years": [[spoiler: Hathaway]] [[spoiler:Hathaway]] is forcibly taken back to Earth, leaving his "family" behind to continue their empty routine.
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* PrefersTheIllusion: [[spoiler: Mr. Hathaway and his too-idyllic family.]]
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* RealityBleed: "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed"
* ReplacementGoldfish / RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler:Mr. Hathaways's family.]]
* SandIsWater: The Martians had sand ships.
* ReplacementGoldfish / RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler:Mr. Hathaways's family.]]
* SandIsWater: The Martians had sand ships.
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* RealityBleed: In "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed"
Golden-Eyed", a fledgling colony on Mars starts to gain a peculiarly insightful understanding of the extinct Martians, until [[spoiler:they actually become Martians by the end of the story]].
*ReplacementGoldfish / RidiculouslyHumanRobots: RegionalRedecoration: The entire Australian continent is atomized in a premature detonation of a nuclear stockpile, which sets the stage for a nuclear war on Earth.
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* ScaryDogmaticAliens: ''Humans'' are (very obviously) the "Conquistadores" type.
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* ScaryDogmaticAliens: ''Humans'' are (very obviously) the "Conquistadores" type.
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* ShapeShifterSwanSong: The title character of "The Martian" appears to whoever sees him as a lost loved one. When he's surrounded by a crowd of people, who all need to see somebody different, the results are not pleasant.
* ShoutOut: "Usher II," where a fan of Poe creates an elaborate death-trap based on Poe's best-known gothic horror tales to kill and replace the MoralGuardians trying to destroy literary works. The final line of the story is a direct quote of the final line to "Fall Of the House of Usher."
* SkeletalMusician: Inverted in "The Musicians" where skeletons are used to make music.
* ShapeShifterSwanSong: The title character of "The Martian" appears to whoever sees him as a lost loved one. When he's surrounded by a crowd of people, who all need to see somebody different, the results are not pleasant.
* ShoutOut: "Usher II," where a fan of Poe creates an elaborate death-trap based on Poe's best-known gothic horror tales to kill and replace the MoralGuardians trying to destroy literary works. The final line of the story is a direct quote of the final line to "Fall Of the House of Usher."
* SkeletalMusician: Inverted in "The Musicians" where skeletons are used to make music.
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SeaOfSand: Martian ships sail in the sandy deserts of Mars.
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*ShapeShifterSwanSong: ShapeshifterSwanSong: The title character of "The Martian" appears to whoever sees him as a lost loved one. When he's surrounded by a crowd of people, who all need to see somebody different, the results are not pleasant.
* ShoutOut: In "UsherII," where II", a fan of Poe Creator/EdgarAllanPoe creates an elaborate death-trap based on Poe's best-known gothic horror tales to kill and replace the MoralGuardians trying to destroy literary works. The final line of the story is a direct quote of the final line to "Fall Of "Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher".
* SingleBiomePlanet: Parodied in "The Earth Men". Some Earth-astronauts go to Mars, and theHouse of Usher."
local Martians think they're nutters just claiming to be aliens, so the astronauts find themselves locked up in the loony bin. While there, several other loonies claim to be from Earth, and each say that Earth is a "massive jungle planet", a world covered with just oceans, or just desert, et cetera.
* SkeletalMusician: Inverted in "TheMusicians" where Musicians", in which skeletons are used to make music.
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* ShoutOut: In "Usher
* SingleBiomePlanet: Parodied in "The Earth Men". Some Earth-astronauts go to Mars, and the
* SkeletalMusician: Inverted in "The
* SpaceElves: Martians are slender, beautiful (with copper skin and golden eyes) members of an elegant culture with psychic powers and a psychology bordering on BlueAndOrangeMorality.
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* ThrowAwayCountry / ShinyNewAustralia: Nuclear war on Earth begins with Australia [[spoiler:accidentally being atomized. As in the ''entire landmass''. The event is so energetic that it casts shadows on Mars. It's not entirely clear how there was anything left to fight over on Earth, or how anyone (or even a microbe) was still alive to fight after that; this might be a case of ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.]]
* TheUnpronounceable: The alien last names are pretty much impossible to pronounce in "The Earth Men", being three letters (Consonant or vowel) in a row.
* TheUnpronounceable: The alien last names are pretty much impossible to pronounce in "The Earth Men", being three letters (Consonant or vowel) in a row.
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* ThrowAwayCountry / ShinyNewAustralia: ThrowAwayCountry: Nuclear war on Earth begins with Australia [[spoiler:accidentally being atomized. As in the ''entire landmass''. The event is so energetic that it casts shadows on Mars. It's not entirely clear how there was anything left to fight over on Earth, or how anyone (or even a microbe) was still alive to fight after that; this might be a case of ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.]]
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* TheUnpronounceable: The alien last names are pretty much impossible to pronounce in "The Earth Men", being three letters(Consonant (consonant or vowel) in a row.row.
* UnwantedFalseFaith: In the TV version, a telepathic, shapeshifting Martian encounters a priest who's undergoing a crisis of faith. Since the priest longs to meet Jesus, his thoughts force the Martian to take on His appearance. The Martian begs the priest not to see him as the Messiah because he can't bear the responsibility, and fears he'll be trapped in Jesus' image forever. The priest asks the Martian to go whenever he pleases, and come back as Jesus only personally for him and only on Easter.
* TheUnpronounceable: The alien last names are pretty much impossible to pronounce in "The Earth Men", being three letters
* UnwantedFalseFaith: In the TV version, a telepathic, shapeshifting Martian encounters a priest who's undergoing a crisis of faith. Since the priest longs to meet Jesus, his thoughts force the Martian to take on His appearance. The Martian begs the priest not to see him as the Messiah because he can't bear the responsibility, and fears he'll be trapped in Jesus' image forever. The priest asks the Martian to go whenever he pleases, and come back as Jesus only personally for him and only on Easter.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One early story, 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.
** Then later, in ''The Illustrated Man'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:they go back to help the survivors of the nuclear war.]]
** Then later, in ''The Illustrated Man'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:they go back to help the survivors of the nuclear war.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One early story, "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.
** Then later,book. Later, in ''The Illustrated Man'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:they go back to help the survivors of the nuclear war.]]war]].
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: In "Usher II", the Red Death appears at midnight, just before Usher II is destroyed.
** Then later,
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: In "Usher II", the Red Death appears at midnight, just before Usher II is destroyed.
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* KillEmAll: Near the end of the stories, almost every major character meets this fate.
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* AdamAndEvePlot: Subverted in "The Silent Towns". A man wakes up to find that he's been left on Mars by accident after most of the Martian colony has gone back to Earth. He begins dialing phone numbers in a desperate attempt for human contact and manages get in touch with a woman, who he begins to fall in love with (based on their brief phone conversation). When they finally meet, he finds her [[FatSlob disgustingly fat]], obnoxious, loud, and shallow. When she proposes marriage, he runs away to another city, where he lives happily alone. And if the phone rings, he doesn't pick it up.
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* AdamAndEvePlot: Subverted in "The Silent Towns". A man wakes up to find that he's been left on Mars by accident after most of the Martian colony has gone back to Earth. He begins dialing phone numbers in a desperate attempt for human contact and manages to get in touch with a woman, who he begins to fall in love with (based on their brief phone conversation). When they finally meet, he finds her [[FatSlob disgustingly fat]], obnoxious, loud, and shallow. When she proposes marriage, he runs away to another city, where he lives happily alone. And if the phone rings, he doesn't pick it up.
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* CulturalCringe: Jeff Spender absolutely despises American culture as shallow, narrow-minded and xenophobic. He would rather be a Martian instead.
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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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* EveryoneHasStandards: Cherokee, one of the astronauts from the fourth expedition to Mars is a Native American who is rather vocal about his anger at America's historical mistreatment of his ancestors, yet [[spoiler: he's absolutely horrified when the similar sentiment motivates Spender to go on a killing spree against human colonists and chooses to be killed by his instead of joining him.]]
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* TheAloner: See AdamAndEvePlot. Initially, he's overjoyed - all the homes are abandoned, and he's able to eat and drink and smoke what he wants, and even carts around town with a wagon filled with money, for the hell of it. When he realizes he's alone, he breaks down and cries, and focuses solely on his attempt to reach a 'seductive voice' that calls telephones regularly. When he finally finds the owner of the voice - one FatBastard - he drives the hell away and is very content in being alone.
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* TheAloner: See AdamAndEvePlot. Initially, he's overjoyed - -- all the homes are abandoned, and he's able to eat and drink and smoke what he wants, and even carts around town with a wagon filled with money, for the hell of it. When he realizes he's alone, he breaks down and cries, and focuses solely on his attempt to reach a 'seductive voice' that calls telephones regularly. When he finally finds the owner of the voice - -- one FatBastard - -- he drives the hell away and is very content in being alone.
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* ApocalypseHow: Class 2/3 for the native Martians [[spoiler:and Class 4-6 for Earth.]]
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* DownerEnding: "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something is amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] kill them all.
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* DownerEnding: DownerEnding:
** "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something is amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] kill themall.all.
** "Ylla": Ylla's jealous husband [[spoiler:murders the human astronaut to prevent Ylla from getting to meet him]].
** "The Earth Men": A crew of astronauts arrive on Mars, only to find that the Martians don't even care that they're from Earth--because [[spoiler:they assume that they're insane, and they think their spaceship is just a psychic hallucination]]. They end up [[spoiler:sent to an insane asylum]], and they're ultimately [[spoiler:shot to death by a Martian doctor trying to put them out of their misery]].
** "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something is amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] kill them
** "Ylla": Ylla's jealous husband [[spoiler:murders the human astronaut to prevent Ylla from getting to meet him]].
** "The Earth Men": A crew of astronauts arrive on Mars, only to find that the Martians don't even care that they're from Earth--because [[spoiler:they assume that they're insane, and they think their spaceship is just a psychic hallucination]]. They end up [[spoiler:sent to an insane asylum]], and they're ultimately [[spoiler:shot to death by a Martian doctor trying to put them out of their misery]].
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Averted. Cross-species disease is a major plot point in "And the Moon Be Still as Bright".
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* SoleSurvivor: In the ''Dimension X''/''C-Minus One'' radio adaptations of "Mars Is Heaven!", Dr. Horst was the only member of his family to survive UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. When he was a child, all of his relatives were gassed in Dachau.
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* SoleSurvivor: In the ''Dimension X''/''C-Minus One'' ''Radio/DimensionX''/''Radio/XMinusOne'' radio adaptations of "Mars Is Heaven!", Dr. Horst was the only member of his family to survive UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. When he was a child, all of his relatives were gassed in Dachau.
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** Big Finish produced one in 2015, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and headlined by Sir Derek Jacobi.
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* PlanetBaron: Several of the collection's stories use this trope in a minor key for several of its stories when Mars becomes almost totally depopulated of human settlers. Easy to be king of the world when you're the only one there:
** "The Off Season": A hot dog stand owner and his wife, quite possibly the last people on Mars, tidy up in anticipation of the colonists returning. [[DownerEnding Then nuclear war starts on Earth]].
** "The Silent Towns": A look at a miner left behind who has free run of its various settlements until a chance telephone call [[TheLastManHeardAKnock leads him to realize he isn't alone]]. Unfortunately, [[AbhorrentAdmirer he may have been better off that way]].
** "The Long Years": [[spoiler: Hathaway]] is forcibly taken back to Earth, leaving his "family" behind to continue their empty routine.
** "The Million Year Picnic": A family escapes nuclear holocaust on Earth to become the new "martians", and thereby the new owners of Mars. Whether or not the cycle of abuses humanity conducts will continue there [[UncertainDoom is left unstated]].
** "The Off Season": A hot dog stand owner and his wife, quite possibly the last people on Mars, tidy up in anticipation of the colonists returning. [[DownerEnding Then nuclear war starts on Earth]].
** "The Silent Towns": A look at a miner left behind who has free run of its various settlements until a chance telephone call [[TheLastManHeardAKnock leads him to realize he isn't alone]]. Unfortunately, [[AbhorrentAdmirer he may have been better off that way]].
** "The Long Years": [[spoiler: Hathaway]] is forcibly taken back to Earth, leaving his "family" behind to continue their empty routine.
** "The Million Year Picnic": A family escapes nuclear holocaust on Earth to become the new "martians", and thereby the new owners of Mars. Whether or not the cycle of abuses humanity conducts will continue there [[UncertainDoom is left unstated]].
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* ThrowAwayCountry / ShinyNewAustralia: Nuclear war on Earth begins with Australia [[spoiler:accidentally being atomized. As in the ''entire landmass''. The event is so energetic that it casts shadows on Mars It's not entirely clear how there was anything left to fight over on Earth, or how anyone (or even a microbe) was still alive to fight after that, this might be a case of ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.]]
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* ThrowAwayCountry / ShinyNewAustralia: Nuclear war on Earth begins with Australia [[spoiler:accidentally being atomized. As in the ''entire landmass''. The event is so energetic that it casts shadows on Mars Mars. It's not entirely clear how there was anything left to fight over on Earth, or how anyone (or even a microbe) was still alive to fight after that, that; this might be a case of ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.]]
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* ThrowAwayCountry / ShinyNewAustralia: Nuclear war on Earth begins with Australia [[spoiler: accidentally being atomized. As in the ''entire landmass''. The event is so energetic that it casts shadows on Mars.]] It's not entirely clear how there was anything left to fight over on Earth, or how anyone (or even a microbe) was still alive to fight after that, this might be a case of ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.]]
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* ThrowAwayCountry / ShinyNewAustralia: Nuclear war on Earth begins with Australia [[spoiler: accidentally [[spoiler:accidentally being atomized. As in the ''entire landmass''. The event is so energetic that it casts shadows on Mars.]] Mars It's not entirely clear how there was anything left to fight over on Earth, or how anyone (or even a microbe) was still alive to fight after that, this might be a case of ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.]]
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* DeadToBeginWith: Played with in "Mars is Heaven!"
* DownerEnding: "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something was amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] kill them all.
* DownerEnding: "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something was amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] kill them all.
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Heaven!" The crewmen assume they're in the afterlife when they meet their deceased relatives on Mars, but it's just a trick to lure them into a false sense of security.
* DownerEnding: "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes somethingwas is amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] kill them all.
* DownerEnding: "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something
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* ThrowAwayCountry / ShinyNewAustralia: Nuclear war on Earth begins with Australia [[spoiler: accidentally being atomized. As in the ''entire landmass''. The event is so energetic that it casts shadows on Mars. ]] It's not entirely clear why how there was anything left to fight over on Earth, or how anyone (or even a microbe) was still alive to fight after that, this might be a case of ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.]]
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: In "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!", the United States vessel XR-53 became the first Earth ship to land on Mars on April 20, 1987.
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* DownerEnding: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something was amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] go on a killing spree.kill them all.
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* LotusEaterMachine: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": Part of ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'', this story 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: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": Part of ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'', this "Mars Is Heaven!": This story 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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* MasterOfIllusion: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
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* MasterOfIllusion: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": "Mars Is Heaven!": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
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* NostalgiaHeaven: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": "Mars Is Heaven!": Some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. [[spoiler:[[LotusEaterMachine It's a trap]].]]
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* TelepathicSpacemen: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] Martians create a LotusEaterMachine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until [[SlainInTheirSleep they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily]].
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* TelepathicSpacemen: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": "Mars Is Heaven!": The [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] Martians create a LotusEaterMachine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until [[SlainInTheirSleep they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily]].
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!", the Martians are a race of shapeshifters who assumed the forms of the deceased relatives of the crew of the XR-53 in order to make them think that [[TitleDrop Mars is Heaven]] and lull them into a false sense of security.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!", "Mars Is Heaven!", the Martians are a race of shapeshifters who assumed the forms of the deceased relatives of the crew of the XR-53 in order to make them think that [[TitleDrop Mars is Heaven]] and lull them into a false sense of security.
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* BittersweetEnding: Most of the humankind perish in nuclear war, but few surviving humans settle at Mars to start civilization anew.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: In "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!", the United States vessel XR-53 became the first Earth ship to land on Mars on April 20, 1987.
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* {{Skeletal Musician}}: Inverted in "The Musicians" where skeletons are used to make music.
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* {{Skeletal Musician}}: SkeletalMusician: Inverted in "The Musicians" where skeletons are used to make music.
* SoleSurvivor: In "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!", Dr. Horst was the only member of his family to survive UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. When he was a child, all of his relatives were gassed in Dachau.
* TheUnpronounceable: The alien last names are pretty much impossible to pronounce in "The Earth Men", being three letters (Consonant or vowel) in a row.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!", the Martians are a race of shapeshifters who assumed the forms of the deceased relatives of the crew of the XR-53 in order to make them think that [[TitleDrop Mars is Heaven]] and lull them into a false sense of security.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!", the Martians are a race of shapeshifters who assumed the forms of the deceased relatives of the crew of the XR-53 in order to make them think that [[TitleDrop Mars is Heaven]] and lull them into a false sense of security.
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** 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 and dies on his way to kill the African-Americans who are leaving.
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** 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 and dies on his way to kill the African-Americans who are leaving.
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* AssholeVictim: 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.
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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 freespeech.speech.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: When [[spoiler:nuclear war erupts]] on Earth, the Martian colonists can, with their naked eyes, see the planet blaze with fiery light. [[spoiler:Yet there's still somehow an intact Earth for them to return to.]]
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* ContinuityNod: The government-approved [[BookBurning book burnings]] mentioned in "Usher II" are a call back to Literature/Fahrenheit451.
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* AdamAndEvePlot: Subverted in "The Silent Towns". A man wakes up to find that he's been left on Mars by accident after most of the Martian colony has gone back to Earth. He begins dialing phone numbers in a desperate attempt for human contact and manages get in touch with a woman, who he begins to fall in love with (based on their brief phone conversation). When they finally meet, he finds her ''[[FatSlob disgustingly fat]]'', obnoxious, loud, and shallow. When she proposes marriage, he runs away to another city, where he lives happily alone. And if the phone rings, he doesn't pick it up.
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* AdamAndEvePlot: Subverted in "The Silent Towns". A man wakes up to find that he's been left on Mars by accident after most of the Martian colony has gone back to Earth. He begins dialing phone numbers in a desperate attempt for human contact and manages get in touch with a woman, who he begins to fall in love with (based on their brief phone conversation). When they finally meet, he finds her ''[[FatSlob [[FatSlob disgustingly fat]]'', fat]], obnoxious, loud, and shallow. When she proposes marriage, he runs away to another city, where he lives happily alone. And if the phone rings, he doesn't pick it up.
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* LotusEaterMachine: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": Part of ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'', this story 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. However, their [[NostalgiaHeaven long lost dead relatives start appearing]], and everyone gets lost in 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 is beginning to realize this, his "brother" turns into an alien and stabs him to death]]. 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: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": Part of ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'', this story 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. However, When their [[NostalgiaHeaven long lost dead relatives start appearing]], and everyone gets lost in 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 is beginning to realize realizes this, his "brother" turns into an alien and stabs him to death]].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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* PrefersTheIllusion: [[spoiler: Mr. Hathaway and his too-idyllic family. ]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One early story, set in the segregated South, is about all the blacks in the area (or the country? it's been a while) pooling their resources to make/buy a rocket to get to Mars. They're never mentioned again through the entire rest of the book.
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* DownerEnding: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something was amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] go on a killing spree.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}guard. It works: [[SlainInTheirSleep that night, just as the Captain is beginning to realize this, his "brother" turns into an alien and stabs him to death]]. 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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* MasterOfIllusion: Some of the Martians, particularly in "The Third Expedition".
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* MasterOfIllusion: Some of the Martians, particularly in "The Third Expedition"."Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
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* NostalgiaHeaven: "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": Some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. [[spoiler:[[LotusEaterMachine It's a trick]].]]
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* TelepathicSpacemen: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] Martians create a LotusEaterMachine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until [[SlainInTheirSleep they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily]].
