Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed

Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed by Ray Bradbury
The bittering family are emigrants who join the other Eathe people to escape from nuclear war on the planet Earth; they flee to the planet Mars in a space rocket. When they arrive, they find that all the Martian towns are deserted, empty and quiet. There are, however, ghosts - or memories - that sill remain in the dead cities. And there is something that brings changes in the earth people who have come to live there. Harry Bittering is determined to cling to his Earth ways, to make an Earth life home. But, gradually, he realizes that they, too, are beginning to change in strange ways, to lose their Earthliness.

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