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    We're Civilized!
    We're Civilized!
    We're Civilized!
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    We're Civilized!

    By Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      We're Civilized! - Alex Apostolides

      WE'RE CIVILIZED!

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license.

      Title: We're Civilized!

      Author: Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides

      Release Date: December 13, 2011 [EBook #38287]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WE'RE CIVILIZED! ***

      Produced by Frank van Drogen, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      WE'RE CIVILIZED!

      By MARK CLIFTON and ALEX APOSTOLIDES

      Naturally, the superior race should win ... but superior by which standards ... and whose?

      Illustrated by BALBALIS

      The females and children worked among the lichen growth, picking off the fattest, ripest leaves for their food and moisture, completing their arc of the circle of symbiosis.

      The males worked at the surface of the canals, or in open excavations. Their wide, mutated hands chipped into the rock-hard clay, opening a channel which was to be filled with sand and then sealed off with clay on all sides and surface. That water might seep through the sand without evaporation, without loss, from the poles to the equator of Mars—seep unimpeded, so that moisture might reach the lichen plants of everyone, so that none might thirst or hunger.

      The seepage must flow. Not even buried in the dim racial memory had there ever been one who took more than his share, for this would be like the fingers of one hand stealing blood from the fingers of the other.

      Among the Mars race there were many words for contentment, kinship of each to all. There were words to express the ecstasy of watching the eternal stars, by night and by day, through the thin blackish atmosphere. There were words to express the joy of

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