For the first fifty-odd pages, I was underwhelmed by Bradbury's words. The stories were jagged and inconsistent to one another, the flow of the pages choppy and rough. As the chronicles progressed, however, I began to see Bradbury's talent under new light. Stories built slowly upon one another, and ...
More than just a short story collection, though different from a conventional novel, The Martian Chronicles is what some may call a fix-up novel (or, as Bradbury himself called it, the "half-cousin to a novel"), telling one big story with numerous, loosely connected smaller ones. The Martian Chronic...
A terrific book. Bradbury seems to have written The Martian Chronicles extremely quickly yet with incredible lucidity, with a wonderful ear for dialogue and with a poetic swirling vortex of imagery taking in assorted everyday and exotic objects, people and animals, fire and chemical reactions and st...
My first contact with Bradbury came through a high school text book. My teacher never assigned it, but I was the sort of kid who read through my literature book out of curiosity. This time, it paid off, because I read There Will Come Soft Rains. And I was instantly, entirely enchanted. So much so th...
Beautifully written, you can see Bradbury stretching his skill here. It is pretty amazing to think that this was written more than 60 years ago. It is definitely a product of its time with all the pipe smoking and "Golly, gee" dialogue. Still, as a characterization of the post-war attitudes of progr...
Nutshell: douchebags leave earth, which gets blown up, the maniacs.Slick collection of short fictions set within the frame of Mars colonization. Comical that an early expedition is locked up in an indigenous insane asylum and euthanized. Oh, you’re from Earth? But of course you are! &c. Setting...
The Martian Chronicles has all the virtues and flaws of everything I've ever read by Ray Bradbury. He writes beautiful prose and he's particularly good at spooky and haunting imagery. He's in a different category entirely from other "golden oldie" SF authors — his stuff is deliberately thoughtful an...
I read Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles back in high school, but after recently listening to radio dramatizations of several stories from Chronicles, I decided to read it again. I have to say, I appreciated it much more the second time around.In Chronicles, Bradbury leads the reader through an ...
"The way I see it there's a Truth on every planet. All parts of the Big Truth. On a certain day they'll all fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw...For this truth here is as true as Earth's truth, and they lie side by side."Ray Bradbury was a great writer whose work speaks volumes (I say this aft...
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