While we're on the subject of sci-fi...check out this out: a sci-fi I'm reading on Mars colonization. The residents live in ticky-tacky hovels and slowly losing their minds from sensory deprivation. Sarah, the femme fatale of the story is awoken by an unexpexted knock on the door: ""two faces looked in on her...The eyes behind their matching square-rimmed glasses widened as they focused on the gun she was holding a few inches from their foreheads."Um, is this the Niemand residence?" The man to the left swallowed nervously. the two of them didn't appear to be twins, but looked as if they were trying to be. "If it's not, we're sorry...." "Maybe this is a bad time. Maybe we could come back....some other time.".........
....Seized by a dreadful suspicion, she refocused on the two men at her door. "You're not Jehovah's Witnesses, are you?" That would be all she needed right now, to get handed an animated Watchtower, complete with stereophonic sound effects triggered by the warmth of her thumb and forefinger. Another of the groups that had been seen recently, evangelizing through the emigrant colonies-she looked to see if one of them was carrying a miniature holographic projector suitable for evoking biblical dioramas in the corridor's thin, acrid-smelling air."
From Blade Runner..replicant Night, by K.W. Jeter
Hmm, maybe the future Guvbod, if the org still exists that long, will claim that the "New World" was finally there. Then they'd have to figure out how to convince the colonists that they were in a real "Martian Paradise".