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I love hearing from my readers. I got this great email the other day:
“The trope about the duster using the frozen finger of a relative to get benefits - true. My brother-in-law works for [the] UK foreign office, was in Pakistan. Many people moved to [the] UK to work but in fact retired back to Pakistan after 20 or 30 years; why not if you still have family or property there. You are still entitled to your UK pension; you paid your taxes for it, and it goes a long way out there. Peter's job was to keep an eye on this. Payment required a fingerprint. One guy had a print which was slowly getting smaller over time. Turned out that his son cut it off after his death and kept it frozen!”
It's like I tell my wife, I can’t invent this shit!
I’ve had a couple of complaints about Martian Vengeance. Here’s the most recent sample:
“This story is about the invasion of Mars but spend[s] all the time talking about Martian society.”
My response? Greenies mostly takes place in 2146, and the Martians are nothing more than barely governable vermin who managed to beat WestHem by the skin of their teeth. By the time A Perfect World takes place, it is 2191, and Mars is the premier military, economic, and intellectual superpower in the Solar System. How did they manage that in only 45 years? Martian Justice and Martian Vengeance take place in the decade after Greenies. Even more than the story of the invasions, these stories tell how Mars became that superpower.
All that being said, Chapter 26 gets us back into the space opera business. Roman Gods refers to two specific gods. Ceres was the goddess of agriculture and Ganymede was a Trojan prince who became the cupbearer of the gods. Enjoy!
Mars has some fascinating marital customs. Too bad we don’t have them on Earth! Enjoy!
The newest Earthling refugees have landed on Mars and are busy adapting to their new lives. Enjoy!
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