Life On Mars II

The Fleet Of Stars, 5.

We want to extract more information about life on Mars from Chapter 5 before returning to our by now recurring character, Fenn, in 6.

There is a brief list of other places on Mars:

polar ice dunes;

marts and monuments in Crommelin;

cities clustered in Schiaparelli.

Kinna Ronay's information sources:

telecommunicaton with Martian friends;

occasional beamcasts from Earth;

the public database;

vivifer virtualities;

dreambox.

A vivifer is a programmed virtuality of a real place, e.g., on Earth, in the Habitat or on Luna, whereas the dreambox presents fictional experiences devised by each individual experiencer. Kinna remembers:

a day in Avalon;

an evening in the Mermaid Tavern;

being an eagle, an owl, a planetary system and a molecule.