Looks like I need to add one more item to my summer reading list: “Martians Never Die,” a short story written by Lucius Daniel. Originally published in the April 1952 issue of Galactic Science Fiction magazine, "Martians Never Die” has a niece piece of Mars art by the illustrator Ed Emshwiller. Here are the opening lines of the story:At three-fifteen, a young man walked into the circular brick building and took a flattened package of cigarettes from his shirt pocket.
"Mr. Stern?" he asked, throwing away the empty package.
Stern looked with hard eyes at the youthful reporter. He recognized the type. ...
You can read "Martians Never Die” online or download it for free from either ManyBooks.net or Project Gutenberg.
Thanks to Dave Tackett of QuasarDragon for the tip and the links. I’ve never heard of writer Lucius Daniel and there is no entry for him in Clute & Nicholls' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1995)!
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My husband is Lucius Daniel's grandson. We were looking online for a copy of this story to share with our son. SO grateful to know it is available. My husband just told me that as he left his grandfather's home to be part of what would be a 6 week vigil for dying "Dan" as he was known, he picked up a book as he left their home. It was the April 1952 issue of Galactic Science Fiction. He had not even known his grandfather has written a science fiction story that was published. He read Martians Never Die" as he sat with his dying grandfather, the author. Don't know for sure when Lucius died, but it was in the late seventies.
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