year appearing in 1997 edition. Publication information concerning short stories published prior to their appearance in The Martian Chronicles is available in Ray Bradbury short fiction bibliography. January 1999/2030: Rocket Summer Publication history First appeared in The Martian Chronicles. Not to be confused with the short story of the same name published in 1947. Plot "Rocket Summer" is a short vignette that describes the rocket launch of the first human expedition to Mars on a cold winter day in Ohio. February 1999/2030: Ylla Publication history First published as "I'll Not Ask for Wine" in Maclean's, January 1, 1950. Plot Ylla, an unhappily married Martian, who, like all Martians, has telepathy, receives an impression of the human space traveler Nathaniel York. Ylla sings the 17th century song "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" (with lyrics from the poem "To Celia" by Ben Jonson), in English she doesn't understand. She has a romantic dream involving him, in which he takes her back to Earth. Her jealous husband, Yll, kills York and her memories fade. August 1999/2030: The Summer Night Publication history First published as "The Spring Night" in The Arkham Sampler, winter 1949. Plot An idyllic Martian summer night is disrupted when Martian adults and children spontaneously start to sing the words from English poems and children's rhymes they don't understand, including Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty" and "Old Mother Hubbard". The music, poems and rhymes emanate from astronauts aboard the Second Expedition's spaceship heading towards Mars. The Martians are terrified and sense that a terrible event will occur the next morning. August 1999/2030: The Earth Men Publication history First published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1948. Plot The Second Expedition encounters members of a Martian community not far from their landing site. The Earth explorers, mistaken for delusional Martians, find themselves locked up in an insane asylum. March 2000/2031: The Taxpayer Publication history First appeared in The Martian Chronicles. Plot A man named Pritchard believes he is entitled to be in the crew of the Third Expedition because he is a taxpayer. He doesn't want to be left on Earth because "there's going to be an atomic war." April 2000/2031: The Third Expedition Publication history First published as "Mars is Heaven!" in Planet Stories, fall 1948. The original short story was set in 1960. The story in The Martian Chronicles contains paragraph about medical treatments that slow the aging