> I haven't read "Martian Chronicles", so I can't
> help. I can tell you that "The Silver Locusts"
> is a full novel. It also has an very moving
> scene set on Earth after the great war has
> destroyed everything. There is one house left
> standing and it is fully autonomous and going
> about its daily business, with robots cleaning
> and preparing food, but there are no humans
> left.

I once read a story by . . . oh, someone. Some famous guy. Anyway, it was a short story where a guy builds a house as an unfolded hypercube, but then an earthquake makes the house fold up in the third dimension and many strange things happen. That story RULED.

-eric "I KNOW it was someone famous" sleator
Wed 28 Feb A.D. 2001