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The Martian Chronicles Paperback - 2011
by Ray Bradbury
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Before the advent of space flight, Ray Bradbury had humankind cultivating planets. In "The Martian Chronicles", humanity discovers an ancient civilization on the verge of ruin. This classic work presents tales of human interaction with one another and with the Martians.
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- Title The Martian Chronicles
- Author Ray Bradbury
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, New York
- Date 2011-10-11
- Bookseller's Inventory # A006207993X
- ISBN 9780062079930 / 006207993X
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
- Reading level 740
- Library of Congress subjects Mars (Planet), Interplanetary voyages
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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About this book
The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines.
From the rear cover
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.
