The Martian Chronicles
by:
Ray Bradbury (author)
Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars—and in that instant, Mars conquered him. The...
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Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars—and in that instant, Mars conquered him. The strange new world with its ancient, dying race and vast, red-gold deserts cast a spell on him, settled into his dreams, and changed him forever. Here are the captivating chronicles of man and Mars—the modern classic by the peerless Ray Bradbury.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553278224 (0553278223)
Publish date: June 1st 1984
Publisher: Bantam/Spectra
Pages no: 182
Edition language: English
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...
Incredibly odd and disturbing, few books have made me think - or feel - as much as this one has.
Incredibly odd and disturbing, few books have made me think - or feel - as much as this one has.
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...
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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