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  • As for the ruins outside town (which the Martians never called "Marsopolis"), a lot of high foreheads including Daddy have seen to it that the best parts are locked off so that tourists will not carve their initials in something that was old when stone axes were the last thing in superweapons.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • But spacemen die if they stay in one place; he hooked a crawler over to Drywater again and thence to Marsopolis.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • Now Rhysling had never seen any of these changes and no one described them to him; when he "saw" Marsopolis again, he visualized it as it had been, before it was rationalized for trade.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • The subtle change in his orientation which enabled him to see beauty at Marsopolis where beauty was not now began to affect his whole life.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • Long sigh and a wish for my happy girlhood in Marsopolis, where I understood how things worked.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • Especially anyone reared in a gentle and civilized place like Marsopolis.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • But actually the shielding is better than that and it is safer to be in the ship's shelter during a bad solar storm than it is to be in Marsopolis.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • I guess you can take the girl out of Marsopolis but you can't quite take Marsopolis out of the girl.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • I didn't really realize that we were going to the Marsopolis Cr-che until we were there, so bemused had I been earlier with my own tumultuous emotions.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • The facts are these: the cr-che at Marsopolis has thousands of newborn babies marbleized at just short of absolute zero, waiting in perfect safety until their respective parents are ready for them.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

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