Gosh – someone else who has read The Martian Chronicles! There was also an excellent TV series of the book back in 1980 that I remember little about other than that I loved it. I think it was the sand-yachts that really caught my imagination.
Alas, any memory I do have of the show has been sadly contaminated by The Man who Fell to Earth. (Sorry, David – Songs ‘good’: Acting ‘not so hot’. Ditto Sting.)