Terry Carr's "Hop-Friend" (short story, first contact, free)

10 years after the arrival of human colonists on Mars, we we are beginning to see the start of the extinction of the natives ("Marshies") - though there are oddballs on both sides that believe the two species can coexist.

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First published: F&SF, November 1962.
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Rating: B.
Included in Ellen Datlow's SciFiction's classics.
Related: Martian fiction.