A collection of short stories each separate in itself but part of a bigger story. Still, again I am astonished how even Bradbury wasn't able to include strong women in his concept. Yes, it was written in the 50s but while there is much technological changes in the story about the future, there is ab...
There is a lot of nice imagery in this book. It has a red, gold, blue dream like quality to it that is effective. The individual stories have many problems. The martian psychology of the early tales is identical with 1950's middle-America which completely undermines the alien vistas. This is no ...
RIDDLE ME A MARTIAN RIDDLE۞A Riddle: What walks on two legs, uses two arms, talks like a human, acts like a human, kills humans, replaces humans, wants to be accepted and loved by a human?Answer: A Martian!۞A Riddle: What walks on two legs, uses two arms, talks like a human, acts like an animal exce...
Wow. Just...wow. Why have I never read this before? Ray Bradbury has written an amazing, lyrical, spooky-as-hell set of pieces that all add up to something much more. Some are very brief, mere sketches of events. Others are full-length short stories.Humans come to Mars, and find it inhabited. But fi...
I love Bradbury, but somehow had managed not to read (all) of this until now. Some of it was really uncomfortable, and some is now very dated, but most of it was funny and interesting and thought-provoking.
Since Ray Bradbury passed away (about a month ago at the time of writing) it occurred to me to reread his books that I have read before, and read the others that I have missed. After rereading [b:Something Wicked This Way Comes|248596|Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2)|Ray Bradbury|htt...
And the voices wailed Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone.p. 171If The Martian Chronicles wasn't a collection of short stories and vignettes, I think I'd put it in my running for The Great American Novel. For as ...
It was Ray Bradbury's imagination that first drew me to science fiction, and his efficient and lyrical prose that made me love the short story format. You can read these pieces individually, but their impact is greater when read as a collection. There Will Come Soft Rains remains one of my favorites...
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