The Nuzoom corporation chooses talented custodian Paco Cohen to create popular music to improve the morale of the transplanted workers of Mars. But Paco, the nanoblock that turns the workers purple, and the nanohudu that’s terraforming Mars, have other ideas. Paco becomes a myth, but also a man in the process. This story appeared in a variant form in the April 2001 issue of Analog. [Explicit language]
Ernest Hogan is the author of the novels Cortez on Jupiter, High Aztech, and Smoking Mirror Blues, and some infamous short fiction.
Additional music composed and performed by Jack Mangan.
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[...] and Variations Episode 8: The Rise and Fall of Paco Cohen and the Mariachis of Mars, by Ernest Hogan – I got a little confused at the end. Is Paco Cohen an Avatar of [...]