Robert J. Sawyer - Mars Reacts

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Mars Reacts!

by Robert J. Sawyer

What really happened to the Mars Polar Lander, which was lost on December 3,

1999? The Globe and Mail: Canada's National Newspaper asked award-winning

Toronto science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer to spin a fanciful tale, suggesting

an answer . . .

(First published in The Globe's Saturday, December 11, 1999, edition.)

The round door to the office in the underground city irised open. "Teltor! Teltor!"

The director of the space-sciences hive swung her eyestalks to look wearily at Dostan, her

excitable assistant. "What is it?"

"Another space probe has been detected coming from the third planet."

"Again?" said Teltor, agitated. She spread her four exoskeletal arms. "But it's only been a

hundred days or so since their last probe."

"Exactly. Which means this one must have been launched before we dealt with that one."

Teltor's eyestalks drooped as she relaxed. The presence of this new probe didn't mean the

people on the blue planet had ignored the message. Still . . .

"Is this one a lander, or just another orbiter?"

"It has a streamlined component," said Dostan. "Presumably it plans to pass through the

atmosphere and come to the surface."

"Where?"

"The south pole, it looks like."

"And you're sure there's no life on board?"

"I'm sure."

Teltor flexed her triple-fingered hands in resignation. "All right," she said. "Power up the

neutralization projector; we'll shut this probe off, too."

That night, Teltor took her young daughter, Delp, up to the surface. The sky overhead was

black -- almost as black as the interior of the tunnels leading up from the buried city. Both tiny

moons were out, but their wan glow did little to obscure the countless stars.

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