2.5 stars ... and that's being generous. This collection of stories about Mars reminded me of Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. But where Burroughs entertained with adventures and action, Bradbury expounded on various themes, mostly anti-war and anti-establishment. The science in this fictional work p...
What really is a collection of short pieces, tied together for a fifty-span of the colonization of Mars and the near-destruction of the human race. This is probably my favorite Bradbury book, although on this most recent reread, I had a little trouble reconciling some of the attitudes and ideas of w...
I see this tagged everywhere as science fiction, but it feels more like horror to me. The penultimate chapter, "There Will Come Soft Rains", appears in my class' new text book as a post-apocalyptic short story, so I thought I'd read the entire book to find out the context of the story. In doing so, ...
I'd read this book before, when I was a kid, and loved it (as had most of the people in the book group.) We decided we'd all like to re-read it. However, the edition I got in the mail was definitely missing at least two of the segments. (Ones I remember MOST CLEARLY and liked the most: "Night Call, ...
4 stars because it contained so many themes and stories that he develops much more later. For example, there is definitely a short story predecessor to Fahrenheit in here and some stuff that is reiterated in the Illustrated Man. But, I loved it nonetheless. The approach is interesting, the book i...
Not nearly as good as it would have been if I read this 20 years ago. The commentary is straight out of events unfolding with race relations in the 40's and 50's which I believe is about the time that Bradbury strung these articles out for Strange Stories and other assorted trade magazines. Some of ...
Books Read in the Past:The Martian Chronicles was one of the earliest short story collections I read, and it taught me early to read them as a whole, with stories that advance or play with narratives and themes across arcs or the whole collection. Like much of Le Guin's work, Bradbury's Martian stor...
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