After the first landing on Mars, a one-way, one-man, privately run mission, alien technology was later discovered there potentially enabling travel to the stars. A reporter is on Mars after the real story of that first man on Mars and, in a bar high up a rift valley wall, she meets someone claiming to be him. She finds out more about that first mission than she expects and a neat twist propagates a pattern./Alan Poulter. Novelette, first published in Mars Probes • anthology by Peter Crowther, June 2002.