"The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1950. First Edition. Art by Arthur Lidov
In a connected series of short stories, 28 in all, Bradbury chronicles the human colonization of Mars. The stories originally appeared in the science fiction magazines of the 1940s. The planet Mars is a strange and breathtaking world where humans don’t belong. They are escaping a troubled Earth and their arrival on Mars leads, eventually, to plague and conflict and to the near extinction of native Martians. But by the final chapters of the book – or as Bradbury describes it, “a book of stories pretending to be a novel” – the humans themselves face extinction. This is certainly one of Bradbury’s best works, which became the basis for a TV mini-series in 1980:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWen9WZhztU&list=PLSNF34sy3aJ...
"The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1950. First Edition. Art by Arthur Lidov
In a connected series of short stories, 28 in all, Bradbury chronicles the human colonization of Mars. The stories originally appeared in the science fiction magazines of the 1940s. The planet Mars is a strange and breathtaking world where humans don’t belong. They are escaping a troubled Earth and their arrival on Mars leads, eventually, to plague and conflict and to the near extinction of native Martians. But by the final chapters of the book – or as Bradbury describes it, “a book of stories pretending to be a novel” – the humans themselves face extinction. This is certainly one of Bradbury’s best works, which became the basis for a TV mini-series in 1980:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWen9WZhztU&list=PLSNF34sy3aJ...