Imperial Earth

Meanwhile, for those biologists who refuse to be placated, I can only fall back upon what is known in the trade as Bradbury’s Defense, viz:

One dreadful boy ran up to me and said:

“That book of yours, The Martian Chronicles?”

“Yes,” I said.

“On page 92, where you have the moons of Mars rising in the East?”

“Yeah,” I said.

“Nah,” he said.

So I hit him

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Colombo, June 1976

Mars and the Mind ol Men (Harper & Row 1973.)