Ray Bradbury
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 182 pages Rating: 4.14 | 198093 Users | 7250 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Martian Chronicles |
| Author | : | Ray Bradbury |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Grand Master Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 182 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1984 by Bantam/Spectra (first published 1949) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Contemporary. Contemporary Romance. New Adult. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit |
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The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection.The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.
But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them – and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.
Contents:
Rocket Summer
Ylla
The Summer Night
The Earth Men
The Taxpayer
The Third Expedition
-And the Moon Be Still As Bright
The Settlers
The Green Morning
The Locusts
Night Meeting
The Shore
Interim
The Musicians
Way in the Middle of the Air
The Naming of Names
Usher II
The Old Ones
The Martian
The Luggage Store
The Off Season
The Watchers
The Silent Towns
The Long Years
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Million Year Picnic
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| Original Title: | The Martian Chronicles |
| ISBN: | 0553278223 (ISBN13: 9780553278224) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Mars |
| Literary Awards: | Analog Award Nominee for All-Time Best Book (1952) |
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We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanitys repeated attempts to colonize the red planet.I listened to this book, and my version features an introduction by Bradbury, wherein. we hear that Bradbury met Aldous Huxley, who read this book and insisted Bradbury was a poet. That makes sense to me, especially if you consider passages such as this:There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his.I've seen this referred to as a masterpiece of science fiction, but it's less about the science and more about the faults and failures of humanity, in this case Americans. He delivers a sharp slap to the face of American racial prejudice, aggressive colonization, wastefulness and disregard of the environment. I think Bradbury would be shocked to see the same conditions existing in the 21st century. He would also be shocked to see we haven't sent any humans to Mars yet.This is a collection of
4.5The Martian Chronicles is a connected collection of awe- and fear-inspired stories about Martian and human existence. Wonder glazes the sky with sparks and lines of light, while dread permeates as an undercurrent. There is a touch of racism in one story. Seriously, whats up with all the watermelon references? But if you manage to ignore that and see it as a product of its time, then you will find a rather marvelous collection of short stories. Im still taking off half a point because, you
I found this Maudlin and Melancholia. I can very well see this is a beloved classic. I will have to admit that I got this confused. I thought this would be part of the John Carter of Mars, but that, I now realize, was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and not Ray Bradbury. I kept expecting it to tie into that story and of course, it never did. I did feel like this was never going to end. It felt very long. It is a collection of short stories on the colonization of Mars. Each story is about
Ray Bradbury's writing is literally flawless.
Poetic science fiction. Being set in the future and involving space travel, Mars and futuristic technology makes this fit into the science fiction genre, but Bradbury is a writer of literature. This is beautiful writing and Bradbury is an artist with a mastery of the language. Mars could be another dimension, or fairy land, it does not really matter, Bradbury has concocted an alternate reality to explore psychological ethos. If Heinlein is the science fiction ideologist / sociologist, and Clarke
The Martian Chronicles is an amazing collection of interconnected stories about Mars. Human missions to Mars, religious missions to Mars, nervous breakdowns on Mars, etc... Even though some of the tales are outdated by today's views, the underlying values and messages remain the same; they are timeless.Some of the stories have been released previously, and some have been changed over the years. I discovered, thanks to Wiki, that one tale having to do with race relations, was not included in this
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