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The Martian Chronicles

Ray D. Bradbury

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Turtleback Books
  • Publish Date: Apr 17th, 2012
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Bound for Schoo - undefined
  • Dimensions: 6.70in - 4.30in - 0.90in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9780606263016
  • Categories: ClassicsScience Fiction - Space Opera

Praise for this book

"A modern classic" --"The Washington Post"
"A wonderful storyteller....Nearly everything he has written is sheer poetry." --"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
"One of the greats of twentieth century American fantasy." --"Newsday"
"A giant...One of the country's most popular and prolific authors." --"Los Angeles Times"
"There is no simpler, yet deeper, stylist than Bradbury. Out of the plainest of words he creates images and moods that readers seem to carry with them forever." --"San Francisco Chronicle"