Jultomten i exil på Mars

I novellen "The Exiles" (1949) i The Illustrated Man av Ray Bradbury så har man på jorden förbjudit sagor, spökhistorier och all annan litteratur med fantastiskt innehåll. Figurerna i och författarna av dessa berättelser bor i exil på Mars. Häxorna från Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe och många andra. Så länge någon läser deras berättelser så finns de.

Till och med jultomten själv har drabbats av detta öde:
"A door banged wide in a little hut by the shore. A thin short man, with flesh hanging from him in folds, stepped out and, paying no attention to the others, sat down and stared into his clenched fists.
«There's the one I'm sorry for,» whispered Blackwood. «Look at him, dying away. He was once more real than we, who were men. They took him, a skeleton thought, and clothed him in centuries of pink flesh and snow beard and red velvet suit and black boot; made him reindeers, tinsel, holly. And after centuries of manufacturing him they drowned him in a vat of Lysol, you might say.»"