A couple of months before its scheduled October release, here's the first
early-bird review of
Old Mars, the theme anthology edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois beringing together fifteen stories about the red planet that could have appeared in the old pulp mags.
About my story in he antho, reviewer Mel Odom says, “The Ugly Duckling” by Matthew Hughes reminded me a lot of Ray Bradbury’s
Martian Chronicles with all its psychological trappings and intrigues".
Which is exactly the effect I was aiming for.