The Martian Chronicles
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00M4KS35S |
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| Number of Pages | : | 580 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave. 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.. The Earthman conquers Marsand 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. Each wave different, and each wave stronger.Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicle
This is not Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles This book has been extensively altered from the original and classic Martian Chronicles. All of the dates Bradbury used in the chapter headings have been changed, rendering the Cold War/Atomic Age context of the book meaningless. One of the most important chapters "Way in the Middle of the Air", which establishes the violence and hatred endemic in the American culture which invades . Don't get this Version! R. R. I love The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. It's a Five Star book however due to censorship I give it a one star. It has great short stories and make your think about things, especially for the time period it was written. It's a quick and easy read. With that said, my issue with this version is the publishers have censored it taking out one of the chapters due to racism, usage of. Beverly Rigsby said Anything Bradbury does is fine with me!. I bought this in spite of some comments saying not to. I believe that since it's Bradbury’s work, he is entitled to change it, tweak it, or even delete it if he feels it’s no longer pertinent. I, too, read the original back in the “olden days”, and Bradbury is correct when he said that back then 1999 seemed a long way off. It still does, in some ways, but in