XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   On 03/02/26 10:01, John Ames wrote:   
      
   > (Also reminds me of a children's book from the '50s - '60s that I   
   > found once upon a time; that had Earth colonists landing on an   
   > inhospitable and seemingly-deserted Mars, only for their children to   
   > meet a couple Martian children, who along with the rest of their   
   > civilization have retreated to underground cavern-cities or something   
   > to that effect. I've never managed to track it down since...)   
      
   I've re-read that in the not-so-distant past, but I can't identify it. I   
   remember that the Earth explorers sending out exploration vehicles, and   
   the Martian children had fun riding on top of them, in a game that   
   anticipated cats riding on vacuum cleaners.   
      
   Perhaps some more details will come to mind in the next few days.   
      
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   Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org   
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