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One dreadful boy ran up to me and said:

“That book of yours, The Martian Chronicles?”

“Yes,” I said.

“On page 92, where you have the moons of Mars rising in the east?”

“Yeah,” I said.

“Nah,” he said.

So I hit him.

as quoted by Arthur C Clarke in the acknowledgements to Imperial Earth, 1976 edition.