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The Martian Chronicles
About this book
Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves... Each wave different, and each wave stronger.
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.
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.
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Green Town, Somewhere on Mars; Mars, Somewhere in Egypt
- January 2030: Rocket Summer
- February 2030: Ylla
- August 2030: The Summer Night
- August 2030: The Earth Men
- March 2031: The Taxpayer
- April 2031: The Third Expedition
- June 2032:—And The Moon Be Still As Bright
- August 2032: The Settlers
- December 2032: The Green Morning
- February 2033: The Locusts
- August 2033: Night Meeting
- October 2033: The Shore
- November 2033: The Fire Balloons
- February 2034: Interim
- April 2034: The Musicians
- May 2034: The Wilderness
- 2035–2036: The Naming of Names
- April 2036: Usher II
- August 2036: The Old Ones
- September 2036: The Martian
- November 2036: The Luggage Store
- November 2036: The Off Season
- November 2036: The Watchers
- December 2036: The Silent Towns
- April 2057: The Long Years
- August 2057: There Will Come Soft Rains
- October 2057: The Million-Year Picnic
- About the Author
- Books by Ray Bradbury
- Copyright
- About the Publisher