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There was a silence, then it was ripped apart by LangтАЩs huge laugh. She was joined by the others,
and the children, who didn't know what they were laughing about but enjoyed the break in the tension.
"Sorry, Captain. That was rude. But we're not going back."
Singh looked at each of the adults and saw no trace of doubt. And he was mildly surprised to find
that the statement did not startle him.
"I won't take that as your final decision," he said. "As you know, we'll be here six months. If at the
end of that time any of you want to go, you're still citizens of Earth."
"We are? You'll have to brief us on the political situation back there. We were United States citizens
when we left. But it doesn't matter. You won't get any takers, though we appreciate the fact that you
came. It's nice to know we weren't forgotten." She said it with total assurance, and the others were
nodding. Singh was uncomfortably aware that the idea of a rescue mission had died out only a few years
after the initial tragedy. He and his ship were here now only to explore.
Lang sat back down and patted the ground around her, ground that was covered in a multiple layer
of the Martian pressure-tight web, the kind of web that would have been made only by warm-blooded,
oxygen-breathing, water-economy beings who needed protection for their bodies until the full bloom of
summer.
 "We like it here. It's a good place to raise a family, not like Earth the last time I was there. And it
couldn't be much better now, right after another war. And we can't leave, even if we wanted to." She
flashed him a dazzling smile and patted the ground again.
"The Martians should be showing up any time now. And we aim to thank them."


From Competition 18:
SF titles in which two or more words are transposed
CAMPBELL'S There Goes Who?
STURGEON'S Well Sturgeon Is Alive and.
HEINLEIN'S Rolling the Stones
ASIMOV'S Asimov the Early
MATHESON's Born of Man, Woman and
CLAUSE'S Tales White From the Hart
BURROUGH'S Ant Tarzan and the Men
HENDERSON'S The Different People: No Flesh
LUNDWALL'S What About Science: It's All Fiction
тАФMarc Russell
тАФWes and Lynn Pederson

DICK'S The High In the Castle, Man
AMIS' Hell of New Maps
MOORCOCK'S Ruins in the Breakfast
SILVERBERG'S Inside Dying The Sturgeon of Theodore Best
ASIMOV'S The Trilogy Foundation
ANDERSON'S Me Call Joe
тАФHarvey Abramson
тАФAl Sarrantonio

CAPER'S URR
RUSS's I Changed? When?
MOORE'S Eye the Girl With Rapid Movements
DICK'S We Can Wholesale It For You, Remember?
SILVERBERG'S Dead With The Born