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The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
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Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a... show more
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars...and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
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Format: paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 181
Edition language: English
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
3.5 The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
bookshelves: autumn-2011, published-1950, sci-fi, little-green-men, fraudio, autumn-2015, re-visit-2015, play-dramatisation, beautifully-put, author-love, radio-4, lit-richer Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 23, 2011 to September 14, 2015 blurb - The people of Earth are p...
warrior
warrior rated it
5.0 The Martian Chronicles
Incredibly odd and disturbing, few books have made me think - or feel - as much as this one has.
warrior
warrior rated it
5.0 The Martian Chronicles
Incredibly odd and disturbing, few books have made me think - or feel - as much as this one has.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
4.0 The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
This was an assigned text for my brother, but after I finished reading all my texts for the year I got desperate and read all his.Mark Monday's review is clever and engaging and got me thinking about this one and did I ever bother to post a review (NO). Discussions of classic sci fi at the dinner ta...
So.... Nicky?
So.... Nicky? rated it
5.0 The Martian Chronicles
I read this the first time in middle school; more than three decades later I marveled at how much detail I remembered. Bradbury's style goes down easy but his ideas linger. Short-story-style format allows plenty of space for points of view both comforting and alienating--and it's the white Earth mal...
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