“Weird Fruits” wins the Marooned Award/ “Droidtown Blues” available online

Ben Bova’s Mars Life wins the Marooned Award for best Mars novel, Gustavo Bondoni’s “The Elcano Syndrome” wins best Mars flash, and “Weird Fruits” wins best Mars short story!
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Here’s a snippet from the site: “…one of the least known stories of the year and the winner of the 2008 Marooned Award for Best Short Story: “Weird [...]

[. . .] When the time came;
when everyone had to choose, to say:
Do I go or do I stay
here
on a dying world with smoke-choked skies,
degrees of highs and lows borne only
through the wonders of technology?
      When that time came,
I thought of you.  [. . .]
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