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When Iris and Panda crash-land in a suburban garden, she assumes they’ve landed in the American Midwest, sometime in the mid-twentieth century. The news that they’re on Mars, and that the damage to the bus is too severe for the local mechanics to fix, comes as a shock. Before long, Iris, Panda, and their new friends are racing across the red planet in search of the only person who can help – and running headlong into a dangerous quest to save the last Martian.
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‘The Last Martian’ by Rachel Churcher is an homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles – one of the author’s favourite books. There are several direct references: the Blue Sail Automotive Company; the comment about cars, suitcases, and hot dogs; the clapboard houses and 1950s fashions; and the physical form of the last Martian. “The opportunity to throw a presence as disruptive as Iris Wildthyme into Bradbury’s small-town version of Mars was too good an opportunity to turn down”, Rachel explained. “The story was a lot of fun to write, and I like to think that Iris leaves Mars a little better, and a little more adventurous, than it was before.”
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