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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: You'll Like It On Mars - -Author: Tom W. Harris - -Release Date: April 20, 2021 [eBook #65122] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOU'LL LIKE IT ON MARS *** - - - - - You'll Like It On Mars! - - By Tom W. Harris - - Nobody could figure out how Kettering had shot - his realistic scenes on Mars. His movie was - just too good to be true--and much too gruesome! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - August 1958 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -I remember it all so clearly. "Get the information and you can have -anything you want," Myron Ferdinand told me. He stuffed his heavy -pipe with five-dollar-an-ounce tobacco and blew a heavy cloud around -his heavy face. "Fail to get it, and I'll wash you out of the whole -industry." - -Myron meant what he said. "I'll get it," I said with beautifully faked -confidence. - -"Renn Kettering will be glad to see you at his party tonight," Myron -grinned. "I planted a rumor that you want to leave me and go to work -for him. Maneuver a private talk, get him on the subject of how he made -that damned movie. Maybe he'll let something slip." - -"Great idea," I said. Movie magnates always have great ideas. - -"Talk to his cast. And slip off alone if you can and look his -house over. I don't care what you do, but come back here with the -information. And don't get big ideas on selling out to Kettering. He'd -hire you to get you away from Stupendous and then dust-bin you because -he couldn't trust you. You understand that, of course." - -"Of course," I said. Movie magnates are always right. - -"One thing more, Manny. I want you to see those steals again." - -"I've seen those scenes of his about seven thousand times, Myron." - -"So have I--so has the whole country--and between you and me I don't -think they're as hot as they're cracked up to be. I'd have done it -different. But I want you to see them just before you go to Kettering's -party, to have 'em fresh in your mind. Get it?" - -"Terrif idea!" I bellowed. "I didn't think of that!" - -"That's why I'm president of Stupendous," said Myron. - -Modest guy, Myron Ferdinand. "Right," I said, sliding toward the door. - -"Remember," said Myron. "Anything you want--or on the other hand, the -end of you in Hollywood." - -On the way to the preview room I mulled it over. Nice simple -assignment. Find out how Renn Kettering of PGP Studios had shot those -startling sequences _Mars Hazard_, an international hit. It was super -realism--the critics were calling it "Art's answer to the newsreel" and -stuff like that. The scenes had been shot on Mars. Renn had fabulous -influence. In this case he must have paid off the government itself, -because the crew of the third ship to touch the new planet had been -mostly his own actors and technicians and Renn himself was along. These -factors were known to every hipster. But how had he managed to shoot -those.... - -I was at the view room. I signaled the joker in the projection booth -and sat down as the first famous sequences came on the screen. - -The space crew had left the ship and were in a little ravine when a -bunch of tawnies came down on them. There were liver-freezing shots of -the tawnies--close-ups--those could have been done with a telephoto -lens. The space crew got behind some rocks, and Vance Hubbard, the -film's heavy, stood up and cut loose with a blaster. The blue sparks -burst and showered around the big tawny that was coming for Vance, -and it howled but didn't stop. Vance hurled the gun at its big sticky -mouth, and then the thing grabbed him with its front mandibles, or -whatever you call them. - -There was a closeup of Vance's face, scrambled with terror, about the -best acting I have ever seen from Vance. And, the tawny got those -yellow choppers going and minced him into little hunks. - -It was all close to the camera, and about the most real thing I ever -saw outside of a newsreel. Superb realism. - -If I hadn't seen so many murder films and pirate films and -space-monster films I suppose I couldn't have kept watching. But me -and John Q. Public were just alike--calloused. Calloused or not, I -still felt a cold chill or two. If the public wanted horror, this film -delivered it. - -There were some more hair-raising shots as the crew tried to beat off -the tawnies. There was a guy who got in the way of a blaster. I wanted -to think he was a rubber dummy or some kind of robot, but I couldn't -convince myself. Anyway, the tawnies cleaned up. The only one who made -it back to the ship was Arden Montgomery, and her legs were ripped and -slashed like ragged cloth. - -Then the clips were over. I sat and thought a moment. Maybe Myron had -a point, watching the steals again. I had picked up an idea. It was -crazy, but I needed any idea I could get hold of. - -Maybe those scenes were just as real as they looked. Maybe Renn was -using doubles here on Earth, and the real cast was scattered in hunks -around the bleak sands of the red planet. Renn was unscrupulous enough -for something like that. But could he patch up convincing doubles? - -I was pretty sure doubles hadn't been used in the film, though. I knew -Vance and Arden. It was them. - -I kept worrying at it all the way to Renn's house party. I came up with -one more idea--one I liked. Arden Montgomery was the only one in the -film that escaped. If those scenes were real, she'd have scars on her -legs the rest of her life. They'd be too severe to disguise completely. -Arden and I had once been what they call "good friends," and tonight I -would find a chance to give her legs a good, thorough lookover. - - * * * * * - -Renn met me at the door in person. On the front of his phony grin, and -in the back of his mind was the possibility he might get me away from -Myron. The grin didn't change the fact that Kettering has eyes like dry -ice, and that the true lines of his face are about as jovial as a shock -trooper's. - -"Greetings, Gabe!" I chortled. - -"Greetings, Gabe!" - -I was about to shake hands when I yelled and jumped back about ten -feet. Just behind Renn was a snarling tawny. - -Renn laughed. "Little watchdog I brought back. He's a runt, you'll -notice. Only about five feet high. Weighs about fifteen hundred pounds. -He keeps prowlers off the grounds at night--so many people are curious -these days. But don't worry, he can't get at you." - -The runt was tied with steel cables about two inches thick. He was -giving the cables a hard time. - -"Come on in," laughed Kettering. "Those cables would hold an elephant." - -"I don't see what that has to do with holding a tawny," I wheezed, "but -if the rest of your guests got through, I guess I can make it." - -Kettering took my arm and sort of guided me down the hall, and when -we passed the tawny all those eyes or whatever they are, all over its -body, glared through the fur and it leaped at me. The big choppers -clacked a half inch from my ear and I felt a mandible graze my coat. - -Renn guffawed. "I measured his exact reach," he said chummily. "Sorry -if he scared you. A good watchdog--so many people curious these days." - -That made the second time he'd said that. - -I gulped a drink before I began to talk to anybody. Practically all the -Important Crowd was present.... Dick Lutz, the critic; Sally Flours; -Johnny Lambeck of Lambeck & Bowe, and what looked like the whole cast -of "Mars Hazard." I was in luck--Arden Montgomery was there with them. -I noticed she didn't have a drink, so I brought her one. "Greetings, -Gabe," I smirked charmingly, and she gave me the big hello. So far, so -good--she was glad to see me. - -"What's new, Manny?" - -"Nothing," I said, "Except I'm in love with you." - -"Wonderful," she said. "I love having people in love with me." - -I slid my eyes up her legs, which were exhibited considerably. No sign -of scars. - -"How was Mars? I hear it's dry and full of itchy green sand and the sky -is a pink that'd turn your stomach. And--horrors--no bars!" - -"I kinda liked the damned place. Wouldn't mind staying there." - -A little voice in the back of my mind said "Hm! Something's fishy." - -"I heard it was lousy," I told Arden. "Not to start an argument." - -"We liked it. Can't you keep your eyeballs off my legs?" - -Matter of fact, I hardly could. From looking for scars, I had passed -to just looking. I tried higher up and only got absorbed again. There -were some things about Arden, if you overlooked her acting, that were -spectacular. - -"Who's the girl lately?" she asked. - -"Nobody important. Who's the boy?" - -She shrugged, and her dress nearly slid off her shoulder. "Nobody -important. My drink's gone. Let's go get another." - -We wove around people and moved to Kettering's kitchen. It was nice to -be with her again, and I could tell she thought so too. And I owed it -to myself, my career, and to Myron to stay with her just a bit longer. -The fact that I couldn't see any scars didn't prove there weren't any. -I would try to get a chance for a more thorough check. The sense of -touch versus the sense of sight. - -"You people did a wonderful job in 'Mars Hazard,'" I said. "I suppose -the party is kind of in your honor." Then I noticed something, and ran -my eyes over the crowd to check. "It looks like Renn only invited the -actors from the Mars part of the film!" - -"It isn't really a party for the whole cast. Some of us happen to be -staying out here." That sounded almost as fishy as the I-like-Mars-bit. - -"Renn afraid somebody'll get some secrets?" I smiled. - -"Could be," she said, with that hazardous shrug. "You weren't going to -ask me for any, were you?" - -"As a matter of fact I wasn't," I said with disarming frankness. "But I -will now. Just how did he make those terrific shots?" - -Arden just smiled. It wasn't an answer, but the smile was a nice one. -"How about those drinks?" - -We decided to go outside with our drinks, to look at the stars, and -maybe she could show me the one she'd been to. But Mars wasn't out that -night. At least we didn't see it. Maybe because we didn't look too -hard. After awhile we went back into the living room, and I had learned -something, at least. There weren't any scars on her. - -I strolled us over to the group around Kettering. Little Dick Lutz, the -critic, was peppering questions at him, and Kettering was loving it. - -"I may never make another," he was saying. "Would you ask Shakespeare -to write two Hamlets?" - -"Then why so quiet about your technique? If you don't want to use it, -let the rest of the boys in." - -"That's my secret too," Renn Kettering answered smugly, sipping his -drink. - -"Look, R. K.," popped Lutz, who was getting nettled, "I hear the secret -is out already. People talk." - -Kettering laughed. "The secret isn't out--I know it isn't. Like to know -how I know?" - -"Okay, so how do you know?" - -"That's my secret, too." - -I thought that Lutz would choke to death. "You used Martians," he said -with conviction. "Disguised." - - * * * * * - -Renn donned a look of pain. "That theory is shabby, shabby as the robot -rumor. Do you really believe Martians could be disguised that well? And -if they could, do you think they'd want to throw their lives away?" - -"What do I know about Martians?" Lutz spluttered, but he was beat. It -was a shame. There for a minute I thought he'd come up with something. - -I was just about where I'd been when I'd arrived at the party--except -perhaps with Arden, which wasn't exactly what Myron sent me for. I hung -around near Kettering but he didn't say anything revealing, and finally -it was time to go. Arden and I had been occupied in the kitchen, and I -was the last guest. - -Renn went with me to the door, slipping past the tawny which jumped at -both of us. - -"Goodnight, R.K.," I said. "It was real." - -He put his hand on my shoulder, "You're a great boy, Manny. I've been -hearing a lot of nice things about you." - -It was coming. - -"I do as well as I can," I said modestly. - -"I know that," he said, pompous and serious as an old gibbon. "I keep -an eye on people. I'd like you to have lunch with me sometime." - -In a way, I wished I could work for him. He was heading Up, but def. -Myron was right, though. Renn would hire me just to get me away from -Stupendous, then pigeon-hole me because he wouldn't be able to trust me. - -I let my mouth flop open for just a second. "Why--I'd be delighted. How -about tomorrow?" - -"Love it, but I'm leaving tomorrow. Let's make it in about a month." - -I must have looked surprised, and he said, "We're going back to Mars, -you know. Some of the cast liked it so much--may even want to live -there. I'm traveling up with them. The government has another ship -going--they've been most accommodating." - -Him and his fancy wire-pulling. - -"Oh," said I. "Well, whenever you say. It's been a delightful evening." -The hell it had. - -"Thank you," said Kettering. "Goodnight, now. Be careful going across -the grounds, Manny. I let my little watchdog out in about ten minutes." - -"Uh," I said expressively. "Well, goodnight." - -His big gates opened ahead of the car and shut behind it, and I drove -down the road a little and parked. Would Myron want to wait a month -before I could even see Kettering again? I mulled awhile, picked up the -dash phone, and rang up Myron. He was sore when he answered--apparently -I'd interrupted something--and sore when I got through talking. When I -hung up I had received an ultimatum--get the dope, get it now, or.... - -Well, I did look forward to keeping my job, which financed a blonde, a -brunette, and two cars. I couldn't let all those dependents down. - -I am much opposed to hard thinking, but I decided to do some. Finally -I snuffed up an idea. Just to show you what hard thinking leads to, it -was the idea that changed everything. - -Renn was much too cool to show the secret. But the cast had to be in -on it. And there was this liking this Mars business, and the trip back -there, and all that jazz. - -I would sneak back to the house and spy on the actors and actresses. -Preferably the actresses. Only, of course, because they talk more. - - * * * * * - -I drove back with the lights out and parked by the big gate. I didn't -see anything of the tawny. The gate was made of upright iron bars, -sharp-pointed at the tips, and I climbed up. The bars were set loosely -into holes in the cross-pieces, resting solid on the bottom crosspiece -but not welded. I worked one out. A spear. Too heavy to throw at -a tawny or anybody else, but I remembered a movie I saw as a kid, -back when they had jungle movies. The jokers in this movie had done -something I might do with the tawny. - -I climbed down inside the grounds and started toward the house, where -a couple of lights were on. The moon was low and very bright. I didn't -crouch or skulk along. I figured the tawny would spot me sooner or -later, and I'd rather it _didn't happen_ when my back was turned and I -was looking in a window. - -I began to sweat a little. - -I was about halfway to the house when I saw the tawny. It was coming -toward me, from behind the house a quarter-mile away. I crouched and -started a trot, and that seemed to attract it. It came in long, clumsy -bounds, and I could hear it huffing. - -It was time to try the stunt from the old movie. The flick showed some -jungle joes hunting boar. This character was kneeling on the ground -with a spear in his hands. The butt was braced against the ground and -the point was toward the boar. The boar was charging. The idea seemed -to be that it would spit itself. - -The tawny was close and I ran. I wanted him coming at a nice clip when -he hit my spear. I was between him and the moon, which I hoped would -keep him from seeing what he was running into. - -I glanced over my shoulder and he was almost on me, coming like a -roller-coaster. I whirled, knelt, and raised the pointed rod. - -The tawny took a terrific bound. I guess he thought he had me. He went -right over me, right over the spear, hit the ground and started rolling. - -I got my legs going, covering ground in the opposite direction. -Glancing back, I saw the tawny getting up. His mouths were opening and -closing, but he wasn't making any noise. Couldn't, I guess, because of -some Earth difference, or his wind knocked out. It was obvious that he -wanted to. - -This time he came like two roller-coasters and probably a rocket. I -jammed the butt of my spear down solid and shut my eyes. There was a -big thud. I opened my eyes. He had run the bar right through him and -was still coming, sliding right on down it. There was a hissing and -rushing, and clouds of violet vapor spurting from the puncture in him. - -I got the hell out of there. Finally I stopped running and looked back. -He was staggering in ragged rings, his mouth gnashing at the bar, -moving slower and slower like a machine running down. He stumbled into -some little bushes, tangled, toppled, and there was a thrashing. The -air stunk with the escaping vapor. The thrashing quieted. - -I could go on to the house. - -I picked the nearest window and it was the right one. Arden and the -rest were in there, moving around, changing clothes, packing, and -talking. They were talking about Mars, and how badly they wanted to go -back there. They seemed a little sorry about the people they wouldn't -be seeing any more, and Arden mentioned me. - -But that was all I got to hear. There was a rustle in the bushes and -I whirled to see the tawny coming at me, with the iron bar still -sticking through it and the puncture sealed by something like scar -tissue. - -The tawny had its voice back and was howling like a ten-ton tea-kettle. -I heard some yells inside the house. Then the beast was on me and I -felt the choppers starting. I don't suppose many people these days -are familiar with the sensation of being chopped up fine. It isn't -pleasant. But it didn't last long. I passed out. - - * * * * * - -Now this is corny, but when I woke up I figured I had arrived wherever -it is you arrive when you get through dying. But then I saw Renn -Kettering. I didn't think he'd arrive at the same place I would; at -least not the same suburb. Unless, of course, he was running the place. -So maybe I hadn't died at that. - -I saw I was in some kind of room, in bed, and Renn was standing on the -bed. I pinched myself. I was real. - -"Welcome to Mars," said Renn. - -I sat up. I was in a hut made of little stones, reeds and holes. I -glimpsed bits of a green sand desert, pink sky and yellow clouds. - -"The tawny tore you up," said Renn, which was no news to me. - -"Luckily, we got you up here in time," Renn continued. "You'll be -wanting to stay, of course." - -I remembered all I knew about the Mars scene. I leaped from bed, -putting it between me and Renn. - -"Like hell I will!" - -"Oh, you'll stay, just like the others." - -It was coming a little fast. "Slow down," I said. "I got torn up, and -here I am, sound in wind and limb. That's what happened to the others? -That's the secret of how you shot those realistic scenes?" - -"Check," said Renn. "But I won't bore you with the whole long story." - -"I love to hear you talk," I said, drooling at the thought of what -Myron Ferdinand would do for me when I told him the story. - -"Well," said Renn, "it's really because of the Martians. As you know, -they aren't awfully advanced--or maybe they've retrogressed--but they -do have some wonderful things in medicine. Their medicine, or whatever -it is, works on body cells. You've heard about the lizards that grow a -new tail when the old one is cut off? Or a lobster growing a new claw? -Well, all living body cells, including human, have some of what they -call regenerative power. With most animals it's faint; about all it -does is produce scar tissue or replace a few cells like a bit of skin, -for example. But the Martians can hype up this process so you can grow -practically a whole new body. Arm, leg, liver or lights, rip 'em off -and you can grow 'em back. But there's one catch in it." - -"Yah," I said. - -"Yah," he said. "Just like Hollywood. In this case the catch is -this--when you grow back, you're a Martian. You're still you--but -different. It began to show up in our cast in about ten days. Maybe the -new cells are part Martian, or pick up something from the medicine or -treatment or whatever it is. Anyway, you want to live on Mars. Pretty -soon you have to live on Mars. You don't like it any place else anyway. -But you like it here." - -I lay back then and shut my eyes. - -I still remember it all so clearly, how I felt as I lay on the bed, and -all the rest of the story. But I don't feel now the way I did when Renn -gave me the word. Not at all. - -I make a very nice salary working for Renn up here--mostly newsreels -and a few dramas, although even with the medicine nobody will volunteer -to make a show where the tawnies tear them up. And there are some very -nice things about being a Martian. Arden is even more interesting now -that we both have three more senses. And Mars is wonderful. 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His movie was<br /> -just too good to be true—and much too gruesome!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -August 1958<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>I remember it all so clearly. "Get the information and you can have -anything you want," Myron Ferdinand told me. He stuffed his heavy -pipe with five-dollar-an-ounce tobacco and blew a heavy cloud around -his heavy face. "Fail to get it, and I'll wash you out of the whole -industry."</p> - -<p>Myron meant what he said. "I'll get it," I said with beautifully faked -confidence.</p> - -<p>"Renn Kettering will be glad to see you at his party tonight," Myron -grinned. "I planted a rumor that you want to leave me and go to work -for him. Maneuver a private talk, get him on the subject of how he made -that damned movie. Maybe he'll let something slip."</p> - -<p>"Great idea," I said. Movie magnates always have great ideas.</p> - -<p>"Talk to his cast. And slip off alone if you can and look his -house over. I don't care what you do, but come back here with the -information. And don't get big ideas on selling out to Kettering. He'd -hire you to get you away from Stupendous and then dust-bin you because -he couldn't trust you. You understand that, of course."</p> - -<p>"Of course," I said. Movie magnates are always right.</p> - -<p>"One thing more, Manny. I want you to see those steals again."</p> - -<p>"I've seen those scenes of his about seven thousand times, Myron."</p> - -<p>"So have I—so has the whole country—and between you and me I don't -think they're as hot as they're cracked up to be. I'd have done it -different. But I want you to see them just before you go to Kettering's -party, to have 'em fresh in your mind. Get it?"</p> - -<p>"Terrif idea!" I bellowed. "I didn't think of that!"</p> - -<p>"That's why I'm president of Stupendous," said Myron.</p> - -<p>Modest guy, Myron Ferdinand. "Right," I said, sliding toward the door.</p> - -<p>"Remember," said Myron. "Anything you want—or on the other hand, the -end of you in Hollywood."</p> - -<p>On the way to the preview room I mulled it over. Nice simple -assignment. Find out how Renn Kettering of PGP Studios had shot those -startling sequences <i>Mars Hazard</i>, an international hit. It was super -realism—the critics were calling it "Art's answer to the newsreel" and -stuff like that. The scenes had been shot on Mars. Renn had fabulous -influence. In this case he must have paid off the government itself, -because the crew of the third ship to touch the new planet had been -mostly his own actors and technicians and Renn himself was along. These -factors were known to every hipster. But how had he managed to shoot -those....</p> - -<p>I was at the view room. I signaled the joker in the projection booth -and sat down as the first famous sequences came on the screen.</p> - -<p>The space crew had left the ship and were in a little ravine when a -bunch of tawnies came down on them. There were liver-freezing shots of -the tawnies—close-ups—those could have been done with a telephoto -lens. The space crew got behind some rocks, and Vance Hubbard, the -film's heavy, stood up and cut loose with a blaster. The blue sparks -burst and showered around the big tawny that was coming for Vance, -and it howled but didn't stop. Vance hurled the gun at its big sticky -mouth, and then the thing grabbed him with its front mandibles, or -whatever you call them.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>There was a closeup of Vance's face, scrambled with terror, about the -best acting I have ever seen from Vance. And, the tawny got those -yellow choppers going and minced him into little hunks.</p> - -<p>It was all close to the camera, and about the most real thing I ever -saw outside of a newsreel. Superb realism.</p> - -<p>If I hadn't seen so many murder films and pirate films and -space-monster films I suppose I couldn't have kept watching. But me -and John Q. Public were just alike—calloused. Calloused or not, I -still felt a cold chill or two. If the public wanted horror, this film -delivered it.</p> - -<p>There were some more hair-raising shots as the crew tried to beat off -the tawnies. There was a guy who got in the way of a blaster. I wanted -to think he was a rubber dummy or some kind of robot, but I couldn't -convince myself. Anyway, the tawnies cleaned up. The only one who made -it back to the ship was Arden Montgomery, and her legs were ripped and -slashed like ragged cloth.</p> - -<p>Then the clips were over. I sat and thought a moment. Maybe Myron had -a point, watching the steals again. I had picked up an idea. It was -crazy, but I needed any idea I could get hold of.</p> - -<p>Maybe those scenes were just as real as they looked. Maybe Renn was -using doubles here on Earth, and the real cast was scattered in hunks -around the bleak sands of the red planet. Renn was unscrupulous enough -for something like that. But could he patch up convincing doubles?</p> - -<p>I was pretty sure doubles hadn't been used in the film, though. I knew -Vance and Arden. It was them.</p> - -<p>I kept worrying at it all the way to Renn's house party. I came up with -one more idea—one I liked. Arden Montgomery was the only one in the -film that escaped. If those scenes were real, she'd have scars on her -legs the rest of her life. They'd be too severe to disguise completely. -Arden and I had once been what they call "good friends," and tonight I -would find a chance to give her legs a good, thorough lookover.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Renn met me at the door in person. On the front of his phony grin, and -in the back of his mind was the possibility he might get me away from -Myron. The grin didn't change the fact that Kettering has eyes like dry -ice, and that the true lines of his face are about as jovial as a shock -trooper's.</p> - -<p>"Greetings, Gabe!" I chortled.</p> - -<p>"Greetings, Gabe!"</p> - -<p>I was about to shake hands when I yelled and jumped back about ten -feet. Just behind Renn was a snarling tawny.</p> - -<p>Renn laughed. "Little watchdog I brought back. He's a runt, you'll -notice. Only about five feet high. Weighs about fifteen hundred pounds. -He keeps prowlers off the grounds at night—so many people are curious -these days. But don't worry, he can't get at you."</p> - -<p>The runt was tied with steel cables about two inches thick. He was -giving the cables a hard time.</p> - -<p>"Come on in," laughed Kettering. "Those cables would hold an elephant."</p> - -<p>"I don't see what that has to do with holding a tawny," I wheezed, "but -if the rest of your guests got through, I guess I can make it."</p> - -<p>Kettering took my arm and sort of guided me down the hall, and when -we passed the tawny all those eyes or whatever they are, all over its -body, glared through the fur and it leaped at me. The big choppers -clacked a half inch from my ear and I felt a mandible graze my coat.</p> - -<p>Renn guffawed. "I measured his exact reach," he said chummily. "Sorry -if he scared you. A good watchdog—so many people curious these days."</p> - -<p>That made the second time he'd said that.</p> - -<p>I gulped a drink before I began to talk to anybody. Practically all the -Important Crowd was present.... Dick Lutz, the critic; Sally Flours; -Johnny Lambeck of Lambeck & Bowe, and what looked like the whole cast -of "Mars Hazard." I was in luck—Arden Montgomery was there with them. -I noticed she didn't have a drink, so I brought her one. "Greetings, -Gabe," I smirked charmingly, and she gave me the big hello. So far, so -good—she was glad to see me.</p> - -<p>"What's new, Manny?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing," I said, "Except I'm in love with you."</p> - -<p>"Wonderful," she said. "I love having people in love with me."</p> - -<p>I slid my eyes up her legs, which were exhibited considerably. No sign -of scars.</p> - -<p>"How was Mars? I hear it's dry and full of itchy green sand and the sky -is a pink that'd turn your stomach. And—horrors—no bars!"</p> - -<p>"I kinda liked the damned place. Wouldn't mind staying there."</p> - -<p>A little voice in the back of my mind said "Hm! Something's fishy."</p> - -<p>"I heard it was lousy," I told Arden. "Not to start an argument."</p> - -<p>"We liked it. Can't you keep your eyeballs off my legs?"</p> - -<p>Matter of fact, I hardly could. From looking for scars, I had passed -to just looking. I tried higher up and only got absorbed again. There -were some things about Arden, if you overlooked her acting, that were -spectacular.</p> - -<p>"Who's the girl lately?" she asked.</p> - -<p>"Nobody important. Who's the boy?"</p> - -<p>She shrugged, and her dress nearly slid off her shoulder. "Nobody -important. My drink's gone. Let's go get another."</p> - -<p>We wove around people and moved to Kettering's kitchen. It was nice to -be with her again, and I could tell she thought so too. And I owed it -to myself, my career, and to Myron to stay with her just a bit longer. -The fact that I couldn't see any scars didn't prove there weren't any. -I would try to get a chance for a more thorough check. The sense of -touch versus the sense of sight.</p> - -<p>"You people did a wonderful job in 'Mars Hazard,'" I said. "I suppose -the party is kind of in your honor." Then I noticed something, and ran -my eyes over the crowd to check. "It looks like Renn only invited the -actors from the Mars part of the film!"</p> - -<p>"It isn't really a party for the whole cast. Some of us happen to be -staying out here." That sounded almost as fishy as the I-like-Mars-bit.</p> - -<p>"Renn afraid somebody'll get some secrets?" I smiled.</p> - -<p>"Could be," she said, with that hazardous shrug. "You weren't going to -ask me for any, were you?"</p> - -<p>"As a matter of fact I wasn't," I said with disarming frankness. "But I -will now. Just how did he make those terrific shots?"</p> - -<p>Arden just smiled. It wasn't an answer, but the smile was a nice one. -"How about those drinks?"</p> - -<p>We decided to go outside with our drinks, to look at the stars, and -maybe she could show me the one she'd been to. But Mars wasn't out that -night. At least we didn't see it. Maybe because we didn't look too -hard. After awhile we went back into the living room, and I had learned -something, at least. There weren't any scars on her.</p> - -<p>I strolled us over to the group around Kettering. Little Dick Lutz, the -critic, was peppering questions at him, and Kettering was loving it.</p> - -<p>"I may never make another," he was saying. "Would you ask Shakespeare -to write two Hamlets?"</p> - -<p>"Then why so quiet about your technique? If you don't want to use it, -let the rest of the boys in."</p> - -<p>"That's my secret too," Renn Kettering answered smugly, sipping his -drink.</p> - -<p>"Look, R. K.," popped Lutz, who was getting nettled, "I hear the secret -is out already. People talk."</p> - -<p>Kettering laughed. "The secret isn't out—I know it isn't. Like to know -how I know?"</p> - -<p>"Okay, so how do you know?"</p> - -<p>"That's my secret, too."</p> - -<p>I thought that Lutz would choke to death. "You used Martians," he said -with conviction. "Disguised."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Renn donned a look of pain. "That theory is shabby, shabby as the robot -rumor. Do you really believe Martians could be disguised that well? And -if they could, do you think they'd want to throw their lives away?"</p> - -<p>"What do I know about Martians?" Lutz spluttered, but he was beat. It -was a shame. There for a minute I thought he'd come up with something.</p> - -<p>I was just about where I'd been when I'd arrived at the party—except -perhaps with Arden, which wasn't exactly what Myron sent me for. I hung -around near Kettering but he didn't say anything revealing, and finally -it was time to go. Arden and I had been occupied in the kitchen, and I -was the last guest.</p> - -<p>Renn went with me to the door, slipping past the tawny which jumped at -both of us.</p> - -<p>"Goodnight, R.K.," I said. "It was real."</p> - -<p>He put his hand on my shoulder, "You're a great boy, Manny. I've been -hearing a lot of nice things about you."</p> - -<p>It was coming.</p> - -<p>"I do as well as I can," I said modestly.</p> - -<p>"I know that," he said, pompous and serious as an old gibbon. "I keep -an eye on people. I'd like you to have lunch with me sometime."</p> - -<p>In a way, I wished I could work for him. He was heading Up, but def. -Myron was right, though. Renn would hire me just to get me away from -Stupendous, then pigeon-hole me because he wouldn't be able to trust me.</p> - -<p>I let my mouth flop open for just a second. "Why—I'd be delighted. How -about tomorrow?"</p> - -<p>"Love it, but I'm leaving tomorrow. Let's make it in about a month."</p> - -<p>I must have looked surprised, and he said, "We're going back to Mars, -you know. Some of the cast liked it so much—may even want to live -there. I'm traveling up with them. The government has another ship -going—they've been most accommodating."</p> - -<p>Him and his fancy wire-pulling.</p> - -<p>"Oh," said I. "Well, whenever you say. It's been a delightful evening." -The hell it had.</p> - -<p>"Thank you," said Kettering. "Goodnight, now. Be careful going across -the grounds, Manny. I let my little watchdog out in about ten minutes."</p> - -<p>"Uh," I said expressively. "Well, goodnight."</p> - -<p>His big gates opened ahead of the car and shut behind it, and I drove -down the road a little and parked. Would Myron want to wait a month -before I could even see Kettering again? I mulled awhile, picked up the -dash phone, and rang up Myron. He was sore when he answered—apparently -I'd interrupted something—and sore when I got through talking. When I -hung up I had received an ultimatum—get the dope, get it now, or....</p> - -<p>Well, I did look forward to keeping my job, which financed a blonde, a -brunette, and two cars. I couldn't let all those dependents down.</p> - -<p>I am much opposed to hard thinking, but I decided to do some. Finally -I snuffed up an idea. Just to show you what hard thinking leads to, it -was the idea that changed everything.</p> - -<p>Renn was much too cool to show the secret. But the cast had to be in -on it. And there was this liking this Mars business, and the trip back -there, and all that jazz.</p> - -<p>I would sneak back to the house and spy on the actors and actresses. -Preferably the actresses. Only, of course, because they talk more.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I drove back with the lights out and parked by the big gate. I didn't -see anything of the tawny. The gate was made of upright iron bars, -sharp-pointed at the tips, and I climbed up. The bars were set loosely -into holes in the cross-pieces, resting solid on the bottom crosspiece -but not welded. I worked one out. A spear. Too heavy to throw at -a tawny or anybody else, but I remembered a movie I saw as a kid, -back when they had jungle movies. The jokers in this movie had done -something I might do with the tawny.</p> - -<p>I climbed down inside the grounds and started toward the house, where -a couple of lights were on. The moon was low and very bright. I didn't -crouch or skulk along. I figured the tawny would spot me sooner or -later, and I'd rather it <i>didn't happen</i> when my back was turned and I -was looking in a window.</p> - -<p>I began to sweat a little.</p> - -<p>I was about halfway to the house when I saw the tawny. It was coming -toward me, from behind the house a quarter-mile away. I crouched and -started a trot, and that seemed to attract it. It came in long, clumsy -bounds, and I could hear it huffing.</p> - -<p>It was time to try the stunt from the old movie. The flick showed some -jungle joes hunting boar. This character was kneeling on the ground -with a spear in his hands. The butt was braced against the ground and -the point was toward the boar. The boar was charging. The idea seemed -to be that it would spit itself.</p> - -<p>The tawny was close and I ran. I wanted him coming at a nice clip when -he hit my spear. I was between him and the moon, which I hoped would -keep him from seeing what he was running into.</p> - -<p>I glanced over my shoulder and he was almost on me, coming like a -roller-coaster. I whirled, knelt, and raised the pointed rod.</p> - -<p>The tawny took a terrific bound. I guess he thought he had me. He went -right over me, right over the spear, hit the ground and started rolling.</p> - -<p>I got my legs going, covering ground in the opposite direction. -Glancing back, I saw the tawny getting up. His mouths were opening and -closing, but he wasn't making any noise. Couldn't, I guess, because of -some Earth difference, or his wind knocked out. It was obvious that he -wanted to.</p> - -<p>This time he came like two roller-coasters and probably a rocket. I -jammed the butt of my spear down solid and shut my eyes. There was a -big thud. I opened my eyes. He had run the bar right through him and -was still coming, sliding right on down it. There was a hissing and -rushing, and clouds of violet vapor spurting from the puncture in him.</p> - -<p>I got the hell out of there. Finally I stopped running and looked back. -He was staggering in ragged rings, his mouth gnashing at the bar, -moving slower and slower like a machine running down. He stumbled into -some little bushes, tangled, toppled, and there was a thrashing. The -air stunk with the escaping vapor. The thrashing quieted.</p> - -<p>I could go on to the house.</p> - -<p>I picked the nearest window and it was the right one. Arden and the -rest were in there, moving around, changing clothes, packing, and -talking. They were talking about Mars, and how badly they wanted to go -back there. They seemed a little sorry about the people they wouldn't -be seeing any more, and Arden mentioned me.</p> - -<p>But that was all I got to hear. There was a rustle in the bushes and -I whirled to see the tawny coming at me, with the iron bar still -sticking through it and the puncture sealed by something like scar -tissue.</p> - -<p>The tawny had its voice back and was howling like a ten-ton tea-kettle. -I heard some yells inside the house. Then the beast was on me and I -felt the choppers starting. I don't suppose many people these days -are familiar with the sensation of being chopped up fine. It isn't -pleasant. But it didn't last long. I passed out.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Now this is corny, but when I woke up I figured I had arrived wherever -it is you arrive when you get through dying. But then I saw Renn -Kettering. I didn't think he'd arrive at the same place I would; at -least not the same suburb. Unless, of course, he was running the place. -So maybe I hadn't died at that.</p> - -<p>I saw I was in some kind of room, in bed, and Renn was standing on the -bed. I pinched myself. I was real.</p> - -<p>"Welcome to Mars," said Renn.</p> - -<p>I sat up. I was in a hut made of little stones, reeds and holes. I -glimpsed bits of a green sand desert, pink sky and yellow clouds.</p> - -<p>"The tawny tore you up," said Renn, which was no news to me.</p> - -<p>"Luckily, we got you up here in time," Renn continued. "You'll be -wanting to stay, of course."</p> - -<p>I remembered all I knew about the Mars scene. I leaped from bed, -putting it between me and Renn.</p> - -<p>"Like hell I will!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, you'll stay, just like the others."</p> - -<p>It was coming a little fast. "Slow down," I said. "I got torn up, and -here I am, sound in wind and limb. That's what happened to the others? -That's the secret of how you shot those realistic scenes?"</p> - -<p>"Check," said Renn. "But I won't bore you with the whole long story."</p> - -<p>"I love to hear you talk," I said, drooling at the thought of what -Myron Ferdinand would do for me when I told him the story.</p> - -<p>"Well," said Renn, "it's really because of the Martians. As you know, -they aren't awfully advanced—or maybe they've retrogressed—but they -do have some wonderful things in medicine. Their medicine, or whatever -it is, works on body cells. You've heard about the lizards that grow a -new tail when the old one is cut off? Or a lobster growing a new claw? -Well, all living body cells, including human, have some of what they -call regenerative power. With most animals it's faint; about all it -does is produce scar tissue or replace a few cells like a bit of skin, -for example. But the Martians can hype up this process so you can grow -practically a whole new body. Arm, leg, liver or lights, rip 'em off -and you can grow 'em back. But there's one catch in it."</p> - -<p>"Yah," I said.</p> - -<p>"Yah," he said. "Just like Hollywood. In this case the catch is -this—when you grow back, you're a Martian. You're still you—but -different. It began to show up in our cast in about ten days. Maybe the -new cells are part Martian, or pick up something from the medicine or -treatment or whatever it is. Anyway, you want to live on Mars. Pretty -soon you have to live on Mars. You don't like it any place else anyway. -But you like it here."</p> - -<p>I lay back then and shut my eyes.</p> - -<p>I still remember it all so clearly, how I felt as I lay on the bed, and -all the rest of the story. But I don't feel now the way I did when Renn -gave me the word. Not at all.</p> - -<p>I make a very nice salary working for Renn up here—mostly newsreels -and a few dramas, although even with the medicine nobody will volunteer -to make a show where the tawnies tear them up. And there are some very -nice things about being a Martian. 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