Poul Anderson, "The Children of Fortune." See here.
The North American mutants:
land on Mars;
analyze the environment;
begin to build Port Drummond, mostly underground;
are attacked by four Siberians;
kill two, causing the others to flee;
organize a scouting party to locate and reconnoiter the Siberian ship.
Thus, the nature of the narrative changes yet again. We have had:
post-nuclear survival and recovery;
mutants;
rapid technological progress;
spaceflight;
Martian exploration;
gunfights.
The narrative is going somewhere because it will culminate on a colonized outer moon in the further future.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I admit I'm impatient for Elon Musk to hurry up and send his own expedition to Mars!
Sean
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