I know at the time this was written, every piece of science-fiction had some pretty ridiculous elements to them. 50-ft Spider attacks, robots that do nothing but shoot lasers, and Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles had bee guns. BEE GUNS.
It was certainly interesting to see the same "telepathic martian" trope, but its played off very differently here. The humans in the story are assumed to be just a couple of martian pranksters using their abilities to appear to be human. Instead they get thrown into an asylum.
Its also interesting to see how human colonization ruins everything it comes into contact with, just by a simple disease. It makes me curious if we try and colonize some other world without sentient life on it, would we be killed by the brand new yet simple diseases there, or would we completely ruin the ecosystem by introducing simple Earth-born pathogens?
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