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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) |
Ray Bradbury
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 182 pages Rating: 4.14 | 198093 Users | 7250 Reviews
List Containing Books The Martian Chronicles
| 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 PicnicRating Containing Books The Martian Chronicles
Ratings: 4.14 From 198093 Users | 7250 ReviewsArticle Containing Books The Martian Chronicles
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 Even though some of the tales are outdated by today's views, the underlying values and messages remain the same; they are timeless.Some of the stories have been released previously, and some have been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 thisWhat a marvellous book. As I mentioned in a comment when I started reading it, I have read this before, I'm guesstimating mid/late 70s, and also (for some reason) have a fond remembrance of the 1980 Rock Hudson TV series. Well as a book it certainly lived up to my expectations.I don't normally say much about the contents or stories of books I review as I leave that up to the back cover or others to read themselves, but I will say this about The Martian Chronicles (or Silver Locusts); it is a
The Martian Chronicles is a book in a class all by itself. It is a work of visionary science fiction, a Winesbergian short story cycle, and a mythopoeic masterpiece. Ray Bradbury has created and peopled a Martian landscape that neither NASA nor the most brilliant science fiction writers of the future will ever supplant. Mars, to me, will always be Bradburys Mars. This unique book is a collection of short stories connected by a series of vignettes which link the stories, advance the plot, and set
I wish there were more books that told a story though many short stories the way this book does (or just more that I were privy to). I would have never thought that I would enjoy this book more than Bradburys most famous book, Fahrenheit 451. I guess that book is more widely read because it is focused for children and they apparently read more. Everyone should read The Martian Chronicles, not just those who like science fiction.
Ray Bradbury's writing is literally flawless.
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
Note, Nov. 2, 3017: I edited this just now to correct a minor typo.Though the 16 stories that comprise this collection are fitted into a super-imposed chronological framework, and are joined by some short units of bridging material, they were originally composed as stand-alones, not part of any larger unity. Bradbury was primarily a writer of short fiction, the main medium for his characteristic supernatural and science fiction in the era when he started writing; this book simply collects most
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