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Media type Print (Hardcover) Originally published 1967 Genre Science Fiction | 3.2/5 Goodreads Publication date 1967 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominations Locus Award for Best Collection Similar Works by Frederik Pohl, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"The Day After the Day the Martians Came" is a short story by American writer Frederik Pohl, first published in Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions. It shows how humans can (and will) laugh at (and hate) any minority group. It centers on a group of reporters in a bar, shortly after humans have made first contact with Martians, who are passing the time by retelling 'dumb Polack' jokes as 'dumb Martian' jokes.
"The Day After the Day the Martians Came" was adapted by Marvel Comics in Worlds Unknown #1, May, 1973 illustrated by Ralph Reese.
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