![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing this restriction as a challenge, Nurse Gillian Boardman eludes the guards and goes in to see Smith. He is ordered by the Martians to accompany the returning expedition.īecause Smith is unaccustomed to the conditions on Earth, he is confined at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where having never seen a human female, he is attended by male staff only. Smith was born on the spacecraft and was raised entirely by the Martians. ![]() A second expedition 25 years later finds a single survivor, Valentine Michael Smith. There is a World Federation of Free Nations, including the demilitarized U.S.A., with a world government supported by Special Service troops.Ī manned expedition is mounted to visit the planet Mars, but all contact is lost after landing. It is set in a post-Third World War United States, where organized religions are politically powerful. The story focuses on a human raised on Mars and his adaptation to, and understanding of, humans and their culture. ![]()
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